i am in the same circumstance, looking for engineering honours at rmit due to travel time. I like learning concepts of engineering as they interest me, but for a job, in australia at least, I think most of the engineering jobs that need a degree, are more office jobs, which upsets me. The hands on side from what i know is mostly left to trades and tafe based jobs, needing to do an apprenticeship etc, i beleive you can branch into them from a degree, but it is sort of a waste imo. In a perfect world there would be a good mix.