Creativity. What you said. No more 10x improvement opportunities. Just marginal adjustments. Maintenance. Running the same model a bit more efficiently, carving off minuscule edge cases here and there.
> what the heck is an "aerospace investment banker"
A made-up moniker. I raised money—and did deals, e.g. IP licensing, M&A, PPP, et cetera—for rocket, satellite, drone and adjacent start-ups before that was a thing. I had enough technical knowledge to know we were and are on a precipice. Computer-aided design, singularly, as well as new fluid dynamics numerical methods being unsung and recent game changers; falling launch costs our transcontinental railroad. But not enough to do the work myself. So I sold and structured, things I am good at, while reading Banks and Nivens and K.S. Robinson on the weekends.
Really rewarding work. Didn’t pay that much, unfortunately, though the resulting equity changed my life.
