Pros
The opportunity to play with other good musicians. Travel.
Cons
Everything else. Your primary job is to play music, but you will only do that about 30% of the time. The rest of the time, you'll end up doing mindless computer-based training, administrative duties, writing EPR's. Management is generally unqualified to actually manage. They are musicians that were lucky enough to get promoted through a system based upon test-taking abilities of useless information, not merit. Leadership is corrupt as officer's are holding on to jobs based upon irrelevant qualifications - "conducting." How hard is it to conduct a march? The career field constantly downsizes and will likely go away in the next 8-10 years as soon as Air Force leadership or congressional leaders figure out that we are drastically exaggerating our value. We could do this job much better, with a 50% reduction in manpower. Hardest career field to promote in. Takes 13-15 years to get promoted to E-6 due to past leadership failures that flooded our career field with too many E-6/E-7's.