Being an SE in the field is quite challenging if you’re working for a company like VMware that brings out the best of the breed products in the world and with such a big portfolio of solutions.
The rich products, solutions, integrations of five tenets including multi-cloud, app modernization, digital workspace, networking, and intrinsic security are becoming quite complex and an SE needs to be running equally in the race with VMware to be able to enable/empower the customers. Hence, we all need to have a lab at home, work, gym, or in your backpack. I’ve chosen the backpack as I live more in that than at my home.