I would add Consultancy/Contracting as a must have experience in that list of 'work settings to try before you die'. If you do contracting work you will get a

I would add Consultancy/Contracting as a must have experience in that list of 'work settings to try before you die'. If you do contracting work you will get a _huge_ variety of work in different problem domains. You really learn a lot in the costumer facing part of it, specially if you are more introvert and also the constant networking needed to have a steady stream of work and clients (You also learn that there is no money in the world that is worth putting up with some unhinged clients). One thing that is important to highlight is that although you can learn many things in all of these settings, they also carry different stress levels, I would rank from lowest to highest stress (highest to lowest Quality of Life): 1. Small old company 2. Large old company 3. Consultancy 4. Young Startup