Nolander

So I am debating on whether or not to choose engineering or nursing as my major. I have done much much research on both professions, I have also shadowed a nurse that I know during her job to get an idea of what nursing is about. I have interest in both engineering and nursing, those are the only two things that I would want to go to college for (aside from maybe political science, but I wont go there:lol2:). I believe I am competent enough for either path, I am fairly good and both enjoy math, and love science and philosophy/theories. So my general question is, have any of you or anyone that you know had a career in nursing that went to engineering, or vice versa? How about have any of you studied engineering and went to nursing, or vice versa. If you were an engineer or a nurse and changed, what made you? I realize that this forum is mainly towards nursing (there really isn't any engineering forums like this one, and if there are I would love to visit it), but do you enjoy your work. I figured if I wanted to be a nurse I would want to work in critical care or ER, mainly because I'm a guy and feel that as more "manly" (corny, I know), and if I was to choose engineering I would most likely choose mechanical engineering. Thank you for your responses. Also I'd like to make a note of some of my far-future, personal goals I have for myself. I would like sometime in the future to get into politics, so my general question is being on a nursing forum, how easy is it for nurses to get into politics and can they find success in that detestable area of human ventures ?