pffog
Small road corner junkie
............ But I've known some engineering types who are quite bright and creative who wouldn't know how to adjust a crescent wrench. I've also know some that could literally build and/or fix anything. Those are the truly gifted.
That is because engineering covers such a wide field, yes if trying to figure out how long you need to fire a booster rocket to aim that probe to hit Jupiter in 6 years, knowing how to adjust a crescent wrench isn't a skill you need, but work in most industry's, mechanical skills are widely used.
I hired several Engineers and Engineering co-ops over the years and one of the most important questions I asked in interviews was do you do your own auto maintenance, or did you fix your own bicycle, or get yelled at for taking apart something as a kid, just to see how it worked.
Surprisingly I had a conversation with a retired Engineering manager from Kodak, and he used the same line of questioning, to weed out applicants.
Curiosity and the desire to understand how thing work is a great motivator.