Why Engineering? Specifically Mechanical Engineering

I like to ask people why they study a specific course, I wanted to see how they came to the conclusion, is it a similar method that I used? I will always explain after that why I chose to study Engineering, and specifically Mechanical Engineering.

During my junior college life, I am just your average student who took the standard combination of PCME, aka Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Economics. This combination is the most common one and usually people who don't know what they want to study in the future, they will choose this combination. Why? As it is the combination that can allow you to go anywhere, to get to any course that you want, provided you do well and get very good results. I already knew I am not an essay writing person due to my lousy command of both languages. However, it was during my 'A' level economics examination that confirmed my choice. I told myself that I did not want to write any more essays. Hence using the method of elimination, I have eliminated courses like Accountancy, Business Administration and all the Arts and Social Sciences. I did not even consider things like medicine and law as I did not have interest and actually to be honest, I am not smart enough either, so there is no point considering. My choices are left with Science, Engineering and Computing. I did not see much hope in studying Science as my impression of studying Science will lead you to only two paths - if you are very good, you will be a researcher/scientist, if you are just average, you will end up being a teacher. Knowing my own abilities, and that I cannot teach for nuts, Science is out. There is another point actually, I believe that Science seems way too specialized. Leaving with Engineering and Computing, I did not like Chemistry and Biology, so those 2 engineering courses are struck off. It is mainly down to Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. I find it hard to learn programming and it does not seem to suit me. Seeing how I struggled a lot for circuits during my younger days, I chose Mechanical Engineering.