There's a difference between a job and a vocation, and some vocations take us into an office environment. I chose nuclear engineering because I wanted to work for NASA and someday go to the moon. Astronaut. Mission Class 2 Specialist. I wanted to go! Discovered I couldn't pass a flight physical halfway through college, and had to change course. I spent 45 years as an engineer, in and out of the nuclear engineering field. Much of that time was spent in front of a computer, or in meetings with other engineers and power plant staff, in an office. I wouldn't trade a day of it. I followed a passion, not a job, and it didn't matter that much of my time was spent in an office.