While both industry research and academia research are important and necessary, I want my work to have an immediate impact, just like many of those who posted above. When it comes to academia research, there is always the risk that whatever you were researching becomes irrelevant if the hypothesis is proved wrong. With industry, the immediate results indicate that all the time that was spent researching and designing the product was not time that was wasted. In the end, industry research can always be improved upon as well, just like academia research. To put it into better words, when I spend 8 hours a day for weeks or months on end I would rather see an immediate impact from all my hard work rather than hit a dead end and realize while all that time researching may have helped me grow my knowledge personally it did not help the world advance in any way. The trade-off between these two is that when academia research does succeed, it helps the world advance through leaps and bounds while successful industry research usually only advances the world a little bit at a time. For me, it’s like climbing a rock wall: It’s better to make small moves and guarantee progress towards the top rather than overreach, fall, and start back at the bottom.