[pilatesfordogs]

I think living a stress free life can turn out to be a bad thing. You need physical stress i.e exercise makes you healthy + happy. I wouldn't be surprised if purely mental stress had similar effects on Humans.

Obviously there's a threshold after which it starts affecting people negatively.

Also, just because a job seems like a dream doesn't mean that the day to day grind is for you. I know a lot of pilots who, after a few years of flying commercial airlines, can't stop bitching about the tedium of the job.

[Terr_]

I think that's conflating "stress" with "challenge". One makes you and grow, while the other is just an incentive not to die.

There are challenging things which are not stressful, and stressful things which are not challenging. (Especially if they hinge on something beyond your control.)

[WalterBright]

My dad retired from the Air Force. He didn't go the airline pilot route, because he said it would be "driving a bus" and "boring holes in the air". He went back to school to get a PhD instead and had a second career as a professor.