Engineering here. I use aspects of it. The courses were heavily math and sceince oriented and less practical for what I do, however I would not have gotten an engineering job without the degree, even though much of what I learned isn't applicable in day-to-day stuff. My primary tasks are learned after the fact through experience and osmosis from others. It's more being able to improvise and understand cause and effect, what is importand where compromises can be made for cost or just because there are other factors that limit performance, eg) why spend $5 for a low tolerance part when you have other errors that negate that performance... but I think you need some background to understand what the implications are.
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