This has to be the case. Professionally, I've always found myself lacking in advanced projects to cut my teeth on, but also too time constrained doing the routi

This has to be the case. Professionally, I've always found myself lacking in advanced projects to cut my teeth on, but also too time constrained doing the routine work to be pursuing anything "interesting." I don't blame the company, of course, but I wonder if it isn't sound in terms of business to amortize some of that risk by considering that risky projects let employees self-train and learn new skills that could be of value.