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INTEREST: Job Recruitment Site Asks If You Have What It Takes to Be a Gundam Engineer

...Seriously my academic work is usually so boring I'd relish designing a Gundam .

Not sure your field, but to be able to make things that work requires investing the time to get the basics down right first. Way too many think that minimum competency is good enough, it isn't! You have know the basics so well that people come to you when they can't figure things out. Then you can graduate to tackling harder problems, but lots of great scientists and engineers got that way by having a dream fuel their passion to make or do something amazing. Never stop learning and don't let anyone say you can't do something. A good idea? Do your homework and if it looks like it can be done, give it a try

P.S. Gundam engineering starts with learning CAD like SolidWorks, knowing materials properties and stress/strain calculation

...Officially my fields are Physics and Engineering (specifically Electrical and Mechanical Engineering), although really I have interest in a lot of topics... In my personal experience too many people unfortunately regulate creativity and design to the "arts" (not that I have anything against art) so again an ad like this can help shake some ingrained notions of science, get people to think big and have fun despite the challenges....

You're right that Japan needs this sort of encouragement (badly)........It started with a few individuals like Philo Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin who wanted to find a way to transmit moving pictures in real-time over radio and learned enough to make the first working devices.