
Breadth of knowledge and experience.
Exercising my troubleshooting abilities to rapidly diagnose and solve problem on the aircraft.
The autonomy I'm given. They seldom have to interact with me, and trust my judgement for daily work activities.
We work a 9/80 schedule (in keeping with the customer ... NASA). I have every other Friday as a day off!
It is very competitive with industry (and there is a lot of competition). I do have to make sure that my annual raise at least equals the inflation rate (often the first amount is less than inflation which would be a de facto pay cut).