Yes, I think many things are fun or exciting, often for diverse reasons. ER is fun because, eg, https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/patients-per-hour.1490

Yes, I think many things are fun or exciting, often for diverse reasons. ER is fun because, eg, https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/patients-per-hour.1490403/#post-24173260 https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/patients-per-hour.1... I do some radiology in the ER. I do find this fun. The core skill of radiology is to find stuff in pictures and then communicate these findings to others. Just like I did as a scientist, which I also found fun and exciting. I also find it fun to do research in molecular imaging. I suspect I would further have fun researching AI techniques that may allow us to replace some or all of the human work of radiologists with computers. (I suspect "all" will never happen, for the same legal reasons that I suspect we'll never have real self-driving cars. Humans need, um, human scapegoats.) However, yes, I also have chronic sciatica, or back pain. It gets worse the longer I sit. I don't like standing still enough to use stand desks and treadmills are distracting. Clearly being a radiologist and sitting in a dark room for hours at a time would not be good for this pain. This is yet another reason I got out of full-time programming.