You could try Avionics, best of both worlds.
Yes 20 years ago as I was still studying for my B.Eng in the UK I thought it would be cool to enter the army and work as an avionics maintenance guy on some aircraft carrier. For some reason I like military stuff and things that fly above water...strange.
But sadly the army did not recruit past 24 years old and I would be 25 by the time I graduate. Plus, my physical condition isn't let's optimum... so I would never have passed the minimum requirements for the army I would think ! So I didn't even apply.
12 years ago I finally found a decent job in an electronics company. A small one (in France most of the electronics industry is a myriad of small companies scattered all over the country side... but I like that).
Typical company, had their own R&D department, PCB production lines, and PCB assembly facility populated only by girls as always.
Customers would either ask us to produce their ready made design, or design it for them from the ground up, then assemble the boards, then assemble sometimes the complete finished product as well. So they had technician to debug and fix all the boards that failed at the test bench (supplied by the customer). I was one of them. It was cool, always learning something. Not boring either as the products were varied, from many different customers, and always interesting as the company only made low volume professional industrial stuff, not crap boring shitty commercial consumer stuff. They worked for every interesting domain : medical, energy, transportation, military...
I remember for the 6 months that I was there, we had a couple boards detiend to airdcraft. A pwoer supply module for Eurocopter and I can't remember what else for the A320. I remember thinking to mysefl : "It's cool to work on aircraft boards but it's just a small part, would like to see the WHOLE prodcut, the aircraft itself !!! ".
So I did... after 6 months we had an agreement that they would turn my 6 months "trial" contract into a permanent contract. They did not and came up with shitty excuses. They wanted to make me another 6 month contract. Alson the paty was not as good as what they made it seem to be when I got interviewed... So I said screw you, and I left for Toulouse 600kms south from home, and trained for a year as an Airframe Technician.
Part of the training was a 3 weeks industrial placement. Found my dream placement despite everyone telling me I would never be able to even get an interview there. Worked at " Heli - Union " (
https://www.heli-union.com/ ). I love helicopters, off-shore flying.. well they operate the largest fleet of cool helicopters in France, scattered all over the world for oil and gas transportation duties. All their aircraft come back in their maintenance facilities near Paris for their scheduled heavy maintenance. So there I was for 3 weeks, surrounded with cool off-shore helicopters (not shitty Robinsons....) with their guts all over the shop, and they even let me cut holes in them and fix them up... retrospectively I think they were a bit daring... but it went well I thought.
There they had also military aircraft because their own aircraft did not come back that often for maintenance, so they kept busy in the workshop by looking after military aircraft, and also presidential aircraft too, from all the major dictators on the planet. Not even kidding.
Got to work most of the time on my favorite aircraft : they had a "Pedro" Panther. The military version of the Dolphin, that is based on a aircraft carrier. They are equipped for search and rescue, with a hoist and a big radar dish, and a hydraulic thingy under their belly that lock them onto the deck of the carrier so they don't end up at sea...
By far the best 3 weeks of my 10 years in aviation...
Anyway, yeah avionics would be a good compromise if I can find something locally and with a decent pay. I.e unlikely to happen, so will have to get whatever decent job I can find near home. Just built my house and still many years of work to finish it, so not going to relocate just for a job, that I might well lose for X or Z reason soon after, then have to move again etc... Now I have a house I can call home, and am happy in actually, I have to make do with local job opportunities. You can't have it both ways !
Sorry to be boring but hey, it's not like I have never seen pages of aviation stuff posted on here before eh ?!