> Engineering is not glamorous here at all, which I think is a shame because it's a productive, generative, job, with good qualifications needed, and it has a g

> Engineering is not glamorous here at all, which I think is a shame because it's a productive, generative, job, with good qualifications needed, and it has a good earning potential. Big focus on money here. Being an engineer is also: - rewarding in its own right (you *build* things) - an achievement to be proud of - a way to have a long lasting net contribution to society with - usually - little moral downside I'd put these ahead of any financial reward.