Engineering

Highlights from the life of Ralph H. Baer:

1. Escape from the Nazis to the US
2. Teach yourself to service radios in New York
3. Work for Military Intelligence in WWII and become handgun expert
4. Help train Allies in Europe to use foreign weapons
5. Return with eighteen tons of foreign small arms for use in exhibits
6. Receive the first Television Engineering degree
7. Become chief engineer at a defense contractor
8. While there, secretly invent and build the first television video game
9. Invent the light gun, the first video game peripheral
10. Invent the electronic Simon game
11. Donate all prototypes to the Smithsonian
12. Receive medal 

Engineering doesn't seem like a boring profession now, eh?