You may well roll your eyes at that but from the perspective of a recent university graduate I can tell you that no profession, not one that I know of, inspires anything like the level enthusiasm that flying does. I have yet to hear anyone talk about banking, or the law, or business consulting or whatever modern day well remunerated profession you care to mention like people do about flying.*
The RAF used to have a fantastic recruiting poster showing a small boy running along wih his arms stretched out. Underneath, apart from the RAF logo it said
"Can you honestly ever remember playing chartered accountants."
That said I've met motor racing engineers, research scientists and a few others as enthusiastic about what they do as aviation people can be. But certainly not bankers or beancounters.