I'm not so quick in judging people by how applied they are.
We mathematicians always try to come up with new pure fields, but then some other people always come and find some applications. Just see how cryptography and computer science sullied our beloved number theory!
(I mostly focused on the computer-science-y parts of math in my studies. Thinks like linear optimization and combinatorics. Not sure whether to count that as applied or pure. I guess I might get a purity pass, because we only ever proved our algorithms correct but seldom implemented them.)
