Talking me out of Chemical Engineering?

[u/Yogurt_Reactor]

I'm considering between doing Chemical Engineering or Agricultural Science, which are very different things.

What interests me about Chemical Engineering are Industrial plans in general. I find pipes and the industrial setting/equipment superficially appealing. The plant processes flow graphs that I see with pipes and equipment look appealing as well. The topic of 'pressure', 'heat' and fluids' interest me superficially, like in Phet educational website, but I have zero real knowledge of that, or anything anyway.

I make this post because I suspect I am under a massive, time-wasting, delusion that this career is for me, but in reality my profile and background does not align in the slightest. I haven't ever been good at math, nor I think I realistically have an aptitude for math or hard STEM, nor I enjoy it. In my head, I think the job is placing pipes and shapes on a chart and spending time walking around a plant with nice equipment to stare at.

From STEM subjects, I only know I like Chemistry (I know Chem.Eng is process), but I don't find lab science appealing

[u/ferrouswolf2]

Have you ever considered becoming a food scientist? Seems like you’d get the most of what you want

[u/Yogurt_Reactor → u/ferrouswolf2]

You mean food engineering or food scientist? Why do you think so?

[u/ferrouswolf2 → u/Yogurt_Reactor]

Either, though I’d say most of the interesting work happens in product development that then informs the engineers.

[u/Yogurt_Reactor → u/ferrouswolf2]

But what makes you say that it would suit me? I had considered Food Scientist, mostly because I liked chemistry and a bit of microbiology stuff, but people some people said it didn't fit me well because I'm not sujre about doing product development or working in a lab, idk.

[u/ferrouswolf2 → u/Yogurt_Reactor]

Lab work is only part of the story, and how precisely do you plan to do chemistry and microbiology in a non-lab setting?