Pros
Variety for your daily work experience. On a regular basis, it is nearly impossible to go to work without accomplishing something that a customer, whether intenal or external, will value. However, you must source your own honor and be individually satisfied by seeing integral work accomplished.
Cons
Tenacious short sightedness overtly limits potential for useful work; and your family's needs are of no concern. The benefits derived from creative solutions will be accepted, but are not especially valued or rewarded. For all the talk of working problems as a team and from the bottom up, the reality in the field has always been that unless your work can be made palatable or politically useful for one committeeman or another, only some remote user's perspective is permitted as acceptable conversation.