Realize that engineering isn't just sitting behind a computer every single day doing the same thing, world class companies like boeing realize that to keep employees happy, they have to rotate them around, have them do different projects, and so on. My uncle was an engineer for MD and got to travel all around the world. When something is used by another company, has to be designed around, and so on, you often have to meet with them and go over the design, or respond to accidents and investigations all over the world. There's lots of stuff that you can get to do, so it's not just pilots that get to go all over the world, in fact for most pilots their job doesn't take them all over the world, because relatively very few US pilots fly international. Then of course there's test flight and everything that goes with it (requires engineering degree, etc)...

An engineering degree is a great pursuit and my engineer friends are very happy. Most of them started around 2-3x more than regional airline pilots in terms of pay, and of course they have real increases and promotions they can get, rather than being held down for the chance of "making it" at a major airline.

There's lots that aerospace engineering can prepare you for, especially outside of just aerospace engineering.

The other aspect, and this happens almost weekly on this site, is that you said you have aspired to be a "commercial aviation pilot". When you say this, do you mean "airline pilot", or do you mean "commercial aviation pilot"? An airline pilot is a type of commercial aviation pilot, but the opportunities within commercial aviation are extremely wide ranging, from law enforcement, to insurance, to corporate pilot, to test pilot and all sorts of stuff in-between...