If you chase two rabbits you will not catch either one. Little bit of background here before I begin. I did my comp-sci and mathematics degree and even though

If you chase two rabbits you will not catch either one. Little bit of background here before I begin. I did my comp-sci and mathematics degree and even though they have been useful in some degree or another they both were mostly a complete waste of time in my experience. For the vast majority of the clients and projects that I've had since finishing my university they've all revolved around fixing framework problems or bugs within large code bases. Just today I fixed a massive Land Titling (Enterprise Java/Oracle) bug where the original underlying framework would leak connections/memory until it fell over after 3-4 hours of usage. Other bugs such as off by 1 problems, data translation, data encoding. The vast majority of the time its been incorrectly designed frameworks or replacing frameworks with another framework. For most of the work out there (I would guess 90% of it) its maintaining and supporting clients to achieve their business goals. Completely un-interesting stuff but get a good reputation of getting stuff done and they don't even wink at your asking price.