Beginning to think that maybe EE is the path for me
Hello, I'm a 17 year old in the UK currently having to choose their degree in the near future. I really want to go into engineering, and whilst my grandad was an electrical engineer, I have always written off EE as I have told myself that I won't be good at it, and have always convinced myself that mechanical or civil is the path for me because it's more intuition-based. Which is true to an extent; in Maths and Further Maths A levels I feel I pick up mechanics concepts more easily than pure, and generally do slightly better in them.
However I feel I don't find the Newtonian-mechanics topics as fascinating compared to the more abstract topics like electromagnetism or quantum physics in my physics class. If you had to ask me whether I would prefer to study, say, magnetism and power generation, compared to fluid or thermo dynamics, I would very likely choose the former.
Another thing (admittedly) pulling me are the job prospects. Here in the UK and likely most places it seems like EEs are in much more demand than MechEngs and much better paid than Civils. I obviously understand that I shouldn't do a degree based on purely job prospects, but it does feel comforting to go into a field that pays a very comfortable salary and has good job security in an ever increasingly harsh job market (especially here in the UK with how poorly engineers are paid).
However the main thing pushing me back is how it's never really been my lifelong dream. I really enjoy reading up about the physics of electricity and magnetism etc. . But this is something that I have enjoyed more as I have gotten older; as a young kid I never really played around with circuits, and I know next to nothing about programming, although this is something I want to learn during my year off however for obvious reasons.
And the fact that it isn't tangible is scaring me slightly in all honesty. Sure, the physics seems cool and all, but I'm worried about how maybe I'm not really built for its abstract problem solving. Like I said, I tend to do better with topics that I can visualise or understand intuitively. I like to be able to feel whether an answer is correct or not, and go back and check if it seems wrong. I'm not necessarily 'bad' at pure maths however, I'm quite good at linear algebra, complex numbers etc. in school when I actually work for it. But it doesn't come as naturally to me as mechanics. I also make many silly mistakes in pure, and I can never seem to improve this.
So for any current electrical engineers who were in a relatively similar situation to me: do you regret taking EE, or did you end up loving the subject? And do you find the job fulfilling?
Obviously I am not going to base my decision off of purely these replies, but it would be nice to hear from actual engineers to make more of an informed decision in choosing my degree. The last thing I want to do is choose something which I'll actually end up hating, considering that we are not allowed to change our subject once we start the course (at least in the vast majority of cases I believe).
Thanks.