Yesterday I have been at a concert in New Delhi and at the end the organiser said: Thank you for coming. In these days it is all about “time is money”. You come here to see the artists. And we artists want to express that time is also memory, pleasure, phantasy, recreation and the good feeling to enjoy something beautiful together with others.
There is a big imbalance between material and immaterial values. People are ready to spend a lot of money for material things but only little money for cultural activities. This is the reason why most of the engineers have a rather good income and the biggest part of the artist has hardly enough money to survive.
Does it makes therefore sense to become better an engineer than an artist? The answer might be that if you are not 100 percent sure that your life is dedicated to become an artist it is probably more reasonable to become an engineer. But if you are 100 percent sure there is no other way to enjoy the creative life of an artist and to overlap all the obstacles.