I have something very similar to one of these The only thing I could reccomend adding would be a Panvise for holding PCB's.

I've seen that lots of recent grads have little or no experience with soldering. Even the really easy through-hole or 1206 sized SMD stuff - they somehow make a mess out of it. Some professors I had years ago shunned learning this "trade", they said things like "that's blue collar" or "you will have technicians working for you who can do that" blah blah blah. Bullshit. It's a significant resume one-liner which gives you an edge. You're on the right track wanting to learn how to do something that many engineers need to have done at least occasionally.