Interesting, but I think pilotmike hit the nail on the head. At the end of the day it's just WORK. I don't fly airlines yet but intend to in due course not because of the nice uniforms, the shiny jets but the salary and the greater stability it brings. My current job is just that, a job. It pays occasionally and in truth it can be fun. But mostly it's tiring. Some people envy me when they hear I flew 6 or 7 hours in a day. But I just feel tired, hungry and glad to go home becaue I miss my wife and kids.
I do love flying though and I was a dreamer like so many others. When reality hit home. I found I still liked it. What helped was that I have spent years in basically crap jobs. The kind that turn you into a drone.
Daydreamer may be right, he might find flying airliners boring. But what he doesn't appear to realise is that everything has the potential to be boring. Many a student has left college with a very false view of the world. The problem with work is that it's relentless. There are no long summer breaks. No freedom to just head off. However interesting any job is. You mostly have to turn up every day and do it. Three years later, you'll still be there, five years later, seven years later. If you don't enjoy it, it will be hell.
I will say that basing a decision like that on cockpit videos and flight sim is wrong. Use the same method and you will say that driving a Formula 1 car is just going around in circles. If you get bored in an aircraft, you stop paying attention and that can get very exciting, very quickly. I have flown the same profile on FS as I do in reality. Gawd, it's tedious. No comparsion. The real thing on the other is always satisfying when done right even if I do want to go home. Quite simply cockpit videos and flight sims do not capture the reality of actually flying an aircraft. Despite what people think or tell you.
But, I'm not knocking Daydreamer's decision. Better to realise now than a few years down the line. But beware, aeronautical engineering can be dull as anything else. I can claim experience on that one.