>>10703548If you are an engineer because you want to make money, then you are a money-maker before you are an engineer. If you actually care about a subject and want to work in that field primarily because it interests you, then you are an engineer first, and a money-maker second. What is the difference between the two? Surely the former can be adept, and surely the latter can make money. No, the difference is that the former, while likely to be making bank, only studies out of the interest of their own financial well-being, whereas the latter studies for the sake of the subject and the innovation involved. The former's legacy will lie in themselves and their children, and the latter's will lie in what they built, what they discovered, and all that followed from it. Which of these will have a greater impact, I wonder?
