Beware of the people who tell you engineering is boring. Also beware of the snakecharmer - too many Gordons shared together for him to remember the good times . In mho after a couple of decades of spanner moving, and as I write this from an airport lounge rather far from Blighty, an engineering career in the RAF will kick back what you give it. As for the 'office-bound' comments, that can be true though I have never bothered with the glamour of a staff tour and my office is some thousands of feet up a mountain with a decent view.
It is what you make it!