I got to fly Navy fighters off of carriers for almost 21 years. Retired from the Nav in '93 and now I get to teach youngsters about it.
Those of us that started our careers this way find pretty much anything else underwhelming.
I did this for 10 years active duty then went reserve and did the same thing that last 10 while also being an engineer working on significantly hard electrical engineering problems for the country. That would bore a lot of people but I enjoy it.
Well, today they crammed 15 minutes of content into 2 hours of meeting but other than that.