I think 'selection and maintenance of the aim' is the order of the day-and the aim is to get a job do the 'boring' type of flying you have described
'Boring' type of flying can turn out to be a very gratifying and interesting career. My dream of being a fighter pilot was shattered when Hunter courses were suddenly cancelled and I was posted to Transport Command as a Hastings second pilot, courtesy of the Duncan Sandys Axe in 1957. Seventeen years and 8600 hours later I PVR'd and spent the next twenty years in the LHS of commercial airliners.