I'm looking for some generic advice on choosing enterprise vs. service provider tracks. I've been discussing these tracks, and these environments with different folks I work with. This is what I've heard: while service provider environments have more interesting tech (MPLS, VPLS, big scale, big problems), they are typically very siloed engineering environments. While enterprise environments don't have as much of that aforementioned interesting tech, they offer more opportunity for an engineer to work on a more broad range of areas. Currently I work in an enterprise environment and have access to that broad range of work. I've never worked for a service provider.
Whatever I choose, I want go to JNCIE for that track. I really like topics on the SP track even just from an academic standpoint. Do you guys think it would be a waste of time to go SP when most of what I'm doing is ENT? I realize it's more work. I'd definitely like to keep the door open to work in an SP environment if the right opportunity became available but I like the broad exposure I currently get from working in medium to large ENT environments.