Having worked as a SFE while going to school I can say there are times where I had wished I didn't have this mentality. Don't know how many times I thought "I'l

Having worked as a SFE while going to school I can say there are times where I had wished I didn't have this mentality. Don't know how many times I thought "I'll never use this" and blew it off only to a couple months later run into an edge case where I had to go back and relearn some stuff. OS was specifically one of the classes I've been going back over recently and frequently. I kinda realized as I've gotten older that I'll spend a decent amount of time reading over a lot of material that doesn't immediately click as being useful or is terribly interesting to read but when it comes up I get a lot of satisfaction out of the fact that I can say "OH READ ABOUT THIS" even if it was drudgerous. Plus I'd have to agree that it opens more doors and more interesting work, not just CRUD/web apps, when you have an in depth knowledge. Also if you're not challenging yourself to do difficult work then you're not going to have to dive that deep into the knowledge they teach you.