I can understand your thinking, however being an FE is not just a short cut to becomming a pilot, I and many like me worked long and hard to become FE's. I operated to the UK CAA syastem and did not have my A & P however had been goundcrew for a number of years before becoming an FE. The FE's that do have A & P have many problems because what can you do at the end of a max crew duty day, you can't work on the aircraft to fix any problems as you are out of hours and unless they extend the time on the ground your A & P is worthless to the company. However there are people who do just that to the detriment of flight safety. I was an FE for 30 years did as much as I could within the limits to rectify faults but at the end of the day had to say no to flying without adequate rest. I wish you well however there are many FE's out of work with loads of experience that will get the job before you. Me my licence runs out July this year and that will be that.