I keep waffling about what domain of software dev I should focus on: web, data, games, who knows. It is like Sylvia Plath about the plum tree, but more nerdy and less personal. But I am thinking that “security dev” might be the perfect niche for me; I would love to learn to read assembly code, reverse engineer, etc. Don’t want to be too far from development, would love to develop skills that could hypothetically one day be used to protect the people’s movements from attacks.
security is a good one, if you like reverse engineering stuff and want to make sure you do at least a little bit of writing code, you might also like something in the devops/site reliability/infrastructure realm. Often has a lot of overlap with security too