Do you want to 1) do difficult and frustrating plumbing work to fix what's already here and slightly broken or 2) design and make a new generation of things wit

Do you want to 1) do difficult and frustrating plumbing work to fix what's already here and slightly broken or 2) design and make a new generation of things with your goals and your own tools? Which one sounds more like a career that results in dying young due to extreme boredom and head-desk trauma?