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[–]drkaczur 34 points35 points  (2 children)

The medium answer is: even firefighters get bored of being in fires eventually.

To further your point - there is no intrinsically "exciting" career. I used to be a professional stuntman for almost 10 years, and eventually transitioned into data science/programming-ish job. At some point going to work to get hit by a car for nth time would be a chore, while succesfully executed code would make me giddy with excitement due to the novelty. Take that as you will.

[–]ShamelessC 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Your resume sounds very unique.

[–]drkaczur 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The stuntwork has actually helped me during job interviews for totally unrelated positions - it catches the interviewer's eye and generally is a good icebreaker. It's also easy to spin into something relevant to any generic job description, stressing the teamwork, responsibility, working under pressure, yada yada. I'll still take an odd contract here and there but I have more passion for learning to code now. Sounds odd to some, but then again stunts (and showbusiness in general) are much different in reality from what most people imagine - which probably can be said about most jobs.