I don't blame you for not wanting to work on the press for the rest of your life, I didn't either, 12 hour shifts on nights for 20 years, sometimes doing 5 or 6 nights in a row when it's busy, digging ink under neath the press then lifting 200 pound rubber rollers that are 80 inches long, trying to put them in and out of the press on your knees. I'm glad that I'm able to apply my printing knowledge to comics though, makes grading easier and I'm able to shut down collectors when they think they know what they are looking at...Hahaha.
I actually live about 20 minutes away from the original Eastern Color where they 1st started printing comics, It's still there, It's in Waterbury, CT windows boarded up and abandoned, but I do believe it's on the registry of historical places.