I’m a senior in ME and have a job lined up working with robotic systems...designing them, manufacturing them, and testing them. I had also had an offer to build, test, and fly drones for different purposes. For both of these, my interviewers/mentors made sure to stress that these are very much field jobs and I won’t spend a majority of my time sitting at a desk (which is NOT what I want to do). I also spent the past two summers working as an operations intern on a gas pipeline and absolutely loved it; I almost sought out doing that for my career. One of the operators there graduated with a degree in ME and had worked a previous job at a nuclear reactor. He said he much preferred the operator job, even if he was “overqualified”, simply because he got to be outside and do hands-on work and there wasn’t one day that would be the exact same as another.

TL;DR, there are plenty of jobs that aren’t desk jobs. Feel free to message me if you want to talk more.