[snowwrestler]

Science is very, very rarely inspiring. Most years, and heck most careers, don't produce big impressive breakthroughs. Success for most scientists means slightly pushing back the boundaries of the unknown within their narrow specialty.

Many kids want to be scientists, but the ones who make it through to become professional scientists as adults are the ones who are sufficiently self-motivated. It's a hard industry; the success to failure ratio is way way higher than in software development for instance.