None of my family read the Daily Mail thank you and my father doesn't inhabit a "cosy world". Thank you for your charmingly ill educated assessment though.
It is indeed a rewarding career and I would and do still recommend it to people; I had a superb time and thought I would carry on doing so until I retired. You will, as I did, reach the point however where the horse**** outweighs the good **** - pretty much everyone does. I enjoyed it for nearly 22 years - outlasting 95% of my contemporaries.
You crack on being pragmatic and progressive though - I did. For bloody ages.