Both kinds of experience are so valuable. "Consulting shop" experience where you get to play with a lot of stuff, often very cutting edge stuff. "Long lived le

Both kinds of experience are so valuable. "Consulting shop" experience where you get to play with a lot of stuff, often very cutting edge stuff. "Long lived legacy app" experience where you really get into the nuts and bolts of engineering some software, but you are often locked into a particular stack and the cutting edge is your enemy and not your friend. Can suck big time when you look for your next job and your skills are 5, 10, whatever years out of date...