One of the reasons I got out was that another accident was inevitable; My wife and I decided that we didn't want our entire life savings tied up in a home in the area. We had heard the stories about after the Apollo program ended, where people were just walking away from their homes - they just couldn't sell them.
Low pay... rotating shifts...job insecurity...rampant political bureaucratic BS...too many people dying young of heart attacks. I loved the space program, but not enough to die for it.