@cpark252, I have admiration that you know yourself better than i did at your age. I went into hard-core engineering and its only later in life I realized I should have taken a more balanced academic menu including humanities. But my school focused only on engineering so even if I had the insight then there were few options to do humanities. So my first thought would be to go to a school which offers a broad curriculum that allows you take courses in philosophy etc.
There are many career progressions for engineers, the conventional (or used to be conventional) is to get into design of components parts, and then advance to doing systems engineering which is figuring out how all the parts of a system interact and making trade-off decisions. Just like riding a bike, there is no text book on how to “do” systems engineering, you learn by being an apprentice to a more experienced engineer. (My favorite quote describing Systems Engineers is that they exercise engineering judgement, which involves selecting between two right answers- you can only learn this through an apprenticeship). When I graduated in the eighties, only Aerospace had Systems Engineers, but as the underlying subsytems became more complex other industries started needing this position.
There are many richly rewarding off-shoots off this path. You can peel off to become a sales engineer, i.e. someone who sells complex technical equipment, i.e. engineers selling to other engineers and helping solve complex problems. For example, if you are selling semiconductor equipment to say an Intel at a few millions of $ a pop, Intel won’t fully pay you unless the equipment is fully working - so you need to get the equipment installed and working, which involves art and science (and some prayer)
Or you can move into “engineering support” which is to support manufacturing, maintenance and other productivity initiatives. If maintainence sounds boring recall that someone like Caterpillar makes the most $ by selling spare parts and keeping their equipment running in the field. Ditto for jet engines.
Last but not the least you can become an academic- my EE Prof in grad school was an ex GE guy who had made breakthrough discoveries in his GE career and then retired and taught grad students (funnily enough most of his students ended up at GE). Incidentally this was at a 2nd-3rd tier school, and one aspect of an engineering degree that within reason it doesn’t matter where you go to school (assume it is accredited)
The field is being rapidly transformed by extensive use of computers (so cyber-security issues are now key which was never a blip on the horizon when I practiced), AI and Machine learning, so you have to stay on top of those evolving fields to be relevant. Often younger people know more than you (unlike medicine or the law) so you need to get used to that. More prosaically you need to survive the introductory physics courses, which are used for weeding out. Its the first application of complex math to real problems and usually fairly brutal.
For inspiration you may care to read up on the work of Charles Proteus Steinmetz, who had as much impact on the modern world as did Edison but is far less known. He was physically handicapped and was almost turned away at Ellis Island but ended up taking the theoretical work of Maxwell and Faraday and making it usable in terms of the electrical transmission lines and other equipment. He embodied the essence of an engineer- taking complex theory and making it work…safely.
Good luck in your choices.