[perl4ever]

"never let yourself be promoted to admiral"

This makes me think of Eisenhower, who I only found out recently apparently never saw combat, yet pretty much went to the top in his career and then became President.

Whether paperwork is boring or meaningless is a subjective value judgment. What if it's the paperwork for planning D-Day?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

[TeMPOraL]

The paperwork isn't necessarily meaningless. But for someone who feels best being "out there", where interesting things happen, being dragged back all the way to HQ to forever watch the things they loved from the distance - that's soul-breaking.