I've been sitting here for 5 years in Megacorp's cube farm and I still don't think I have "real world experience." As far as scratching your own itch goes, I

I've been sitting here for 5 years in Megacorp's cube farm and I still don't think I have "real world experience." As far as scratching your own itch goes, I think there is a disconnect between what problems you would like to solve for yourself, and what corporate deems worth spending money on. For a trivial but true example, I've noticed that every big corporation has no good system in place for reserving conference rooms. I'm talking about Fortune 500 and 250 companies where I've worked. At least a few times a month a whole team stops work and walks to a conference room, only to find it occupied. This leads to a 30 minute search for an empty conference room either on a different floor or in a different building altogether. I often wondered why these companies didn't invest in some cheap resource scheduling software or some scrappy startup's app to manage this process. It would save wasted productivity, but I bet department heads and ops directors would have a tough time getting that expense approved. So when you think about what problem to solve, you also have to think about who would be willing to pay for the fix