Me too for a long time, however I did discover that while being the local fire brigade/wizard was pretty cool, sooner or later your management will throw you into something where you are certain to get burned.

One of the problems with doing really great work is that all too often people expect more and more excellence (read miracles) and Murphy and the law of averages will catch up to you. Sadly after one or two of those less then miraculous performances, your fault or not, it doesn't matter how many miracles you delivered previously.