A maintenance job on a foreign space station with questionable technical standards and used as a slave labor camp just a year ago. I think he expected some challenge but more of the technical kind than just straight up torture.

The engineering problems that pop up on DS9 are actually pretty mundane when you compare it to the crazy shit that happened on the Enterprise.

DS9: Some component broke down and needs to be fixed.

TNG: The Enterprise becomes sentient, uses holodeck characters to represent it’s various mental aspects, and gives birth to some doodad that then flys away.