I worked as a software developer part-time throughout school but never enjoyed software development. Although I did enjoy other parts of CS such as cryptography

I worked as a software developer part-time throughout school but never enjoyed software development. Although I did enjoy other parts of CS such as cryptography. After school finished, I was attending local meetups to find out different opportunities in IT industry. At a local security meetup, I met a security consultant (pentester)and ended up chatting with him. As his work was interesting, I applied to a few security consulting companies. Since then, I have been working as a pentester for 3 years now and I am pretty happy with it. Maybe you could think about a similar change.