Why would someone want to be an engineer?

For the money

Answer:

The training and opportunities which are part of engineering are doors to a wide variety of jobs, experience and good paying positions. Engineers can rise up to be chief executive officers, legislators, teachers (at all levels) humanists, national personalities, and movie stars.

Engineers are generally a competitive and intellectual crowd found wherever real adventure is going on - in space, the wildest parts of the world and research.

When working for their degrees, they are regarded as being hardworking and intellectual and as the hardest partiers and best practical jokers on any campus.