Here's one comment I've seen, on the virtues of exploring "strange" technologies in a server-based environment:

Beating the Averages

Personally, I think you'll find it difficult, but not impossible, to avoid the soul-destroying 9-5 job. I plan to spend the next five to eight years trying to avoid it (read: grad school). But hell, you know what's out there: that's pretty motivating in itself. Your major advantage is that you're actively looking for new (or at least different) opinions. The more new techniques you bring to the table, the better chance you have of finding something that nobody expected to work, that does work, and well. Bring a new approach to the table, one that's particularly suited to the problem at hand (but that nobody else has seen, because it's "too hard"), and you win.

Best of luck.

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The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!