In my opinion you made a good choice avoiding a traditional engineering path in your education. I am a mechanical engineer and a machine designer and I like the work I do but the work place politics and the culture really ruins it (I work in corporate America and I hate it but the money is good).

This is a great intro post, welcome to the platform and I wish you the best of luck here! There's a lot of creative people in this community so try to have fun, make friends, share your passion and your hobbies, and the rewards will come in time.