Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
Don't listen to experts.
In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.