Bosses in the corporate world aren't nice without a reason. When he needs you to work until midnight three nights in a row, or says you MUST come in during your vacation to finish a project, then that's when the payback comes.
It's like the the tech companies who offer free food, haircuts, and video games at their offices. The point is to keep the employee physically at the office as much as possible, so that work becomes their life. So glad to be out of that world.
Left in the opposite direction- the only regret I have about becoming a pilot so far is that I should have done it ten years ago.