Fair enough. There are a lot of tedious jobs out there - but there are plenty of varied bigcorps (e.g. Google, AMD, Goldman Sachs, NASA) of whom the following

Fair enough. There are a lot of tedious jobs out there - but there are plenty of varied bigcorps (e.g. Google, AMD, Goldman Sachs, NASA) of whom the following isn't true: "Compared to most folks [I know] that didn't spend time in the industry, their only experience with those topics was a semester in University."