Tbh, I wouldn't want to be top flight of anything. It sounds far too much like hard work. I mean it's surely super being an astronaut. You get bossed around all the time and then blasted into space on top of a big dangerous firework to spend a brief period being sick through your nose before risking being burned to a crisp coming home. If you don't die at some point, which is quite likely. I'll pass. My idea of risk is the top on my caution-contents-may-be-hot Caffe Nero latte being imperfectly sealed.
I'm happy being in the middle. Achievers are tiresome. Aspiration is exhausting. I like where I am, I have a job where I'm paid a lot to do mostly whatever I feel like when I like doing it, my main exasperation is corporate nonsense caused by those achievers who at the end of day are still answering email while I drink some gin (it's ginvent!), I'm married to a woman I love, with two cats of doubtful loyalty, writing books that no one other than me would read (and I don't have to care because doing things for the hell of it makes them completely worthwhile). And I've got good tunes on my iPhone. Pffft to the top flight, they can have it. It's better down below.
