Hats off to all who work on carriers.
I'm an ex-Para, so not particularly bothered about potential dangers, but there is no way in this World that I would want to be anywhere near a carrier, except maybe looking at one from afar (in a pub, on TV, with a pint in front of me !).
And as for landing on one - F**k right off !!
While most of my 8 active-duty years in the USMC were spent on land bases, from Nov 1985 to Dec 1987 I spent some 360 days aboard CV-61 Ranger (2 x 2-month trips to South Korea/Japan, 1 x 6-month trip to the north-western Indian Ocean, & some training time off San Diego, CA).
Most of my work was in an avionics shop below decks, but I did end up on the flight deck during flight ops 4 or 5 times... a rather "interesting" experience.
One time was bringing a repaired FLIR turret up for installation in an A-6E being prepped for a mission during our time providing aerial escort for tanker convoys in the Persian Gulf in Sept-Oct 1987 (and to take the broken one they had just removed back down)... the turret was moved between the flight deck and my shop via an ordnance elevator - my shop was outboard of the hull in one of the sponsons 2 decks below the flight deck - it was originally a bomb assembly space so it had overhead rails between the shop and the ordnance elevator which let us move the 300lb turret through open hatches etc..
Another was bringing up some gear and compressed-gas cylinders of ultra-pure helium for the A-6E FLIR system we were transferring to USS Midway CV-41 as we left the NW IO and Midway took over the duty.
I also got to be on the LSO platform (in the space reserved for "observers") one evening during landing ops.
Location of my shop on the starboard aft overhang - the inner red square is the aft bulkhead of my shop - the overhang is between the starboard two aircraft elevators aft of the island. Just above the mobile crane on the lowered elevator is a balcony that allows access to the shop spaces - the F-14 TARPS recon pod maintenance shop was there in addition to the FLIR shop (S-3As & A-7Es also had FLIRs we maintained). The aircraft elevator was used to move the TARPS pod - it would stop even with the balcony and the pod (in a transport cart) was rolled in or out through the doors.
The Forrestal class had two elevators aft of the island and one forward to starboard and one to port at the fore end of the flight deck angle - which was not an ideal location, as using it blocked both landing ops and launch ops from the two waist aircraft catapults. In my entire time aboard Ranger the port elevator was only ever moved from the "up" position twice - both in port in San Diego while maintenance was being performed on the elevator.
All later supercarriers had the port elevator at the aft end of the angle where it didn't interfere with anything, and the starboard elevators were arranged two forward of the island and one aft.