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> I've met lots of train people who would do train stuff for free just for fun.

This shouldn’t surprise me –I do a lot of programming for fun– but it still does somehow.

Programming is a creative activity though. What are these?

> Welcoming passengers, offloading baggage, refuelling large aircraft, pushing aircraft back for departure and a further array of exciting tasks await you.

Exciting tasks.

It's just the fulfiling part of the job, without any of the bullshit. It may not be "creative" or "exciting", but it's satisfying.

I think I'll never understand. I see all that stuff as the bullshit I don't want to deal with and flying the plane as the actual exciting task.

Some people just like working down task lists. Some people just like a peek behind the curtain of big operations (like an airport, farm, etc).

Not every game is meant for everyone :)

Euro Truck Simulator was the game that this finally click for me. I think under all different game mechanics -- games like OpenTTD, Factorio, RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress, Farming Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator, Minecraft, Civilization etc -- all scratch the same itch of being able to set uour own goals and work towards them through an evolving but intuitive gameplay loop.

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