I first fell into being a press toolmaker, whilst I studied engineering at night school for 5 long years (do the education thing the normal way people, I can't stress this enough to you) and now my company pay for me to do my degree on a one day part-time basis. I guess I'm now more down the route of being what is usually called a "Manufacturing Engineer", which basically means I know how lots of different stuff is made, how certain tolerances are achieved, what world class standards different industries work to etc.
Basically I could work anywhere from the design stage to the finished item stage of pretty much any manufacturing industry.
God, to put it down in writing makes it sound so boring......... 🙁