That sounds interesting and fulfilling.
Tremendously fulfilling. A dream I’d had since childhood was that whatever I did in my life, I wanted it to be part of a chain of knowledge. That I built on the work of others and left something new for someone in the future to, in their turn, build upon. For my professional career in computer language design, I never felt that happened. Everything I worked on was built, used and disappeared. Only in my retirement did I get into the poetry research and FINALLY, do something that others could someday build upon. It took a long number of decades, but I did finally fulfill those childhood dreams.