The Importance of Making Things

Why would anyone in their right mind choose a career in engineering?

‘Why would anyone in their right mind choose a career in engineering when effort versus return clearly favours banking, law, politics or medicine.'

states David Watson in his letter to the Times January 8.

 

 

Well life's not all about money as Stephen Bayley explains.  Making things is hugely gratifying to the individual but also to society at large.

The great changes to the way we live were not created by bankers, lawyers or politicians, but by engineers.