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If you want travel and remote work, you must accept income instability and choose a path like freelance.
If you want a stable home and high credit, stay within a corporate structure and leverage its benefits.
Career success is just a process of balancing your risk tolerance with your lifestyle needs.
It’s not about finding the 'correct' path, but deciding which risks you prefer to carry.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" John Lennon
There are a bunch of psychology based tests you can take to help decide on general career paths. I remember taking one 20 years ago. It had questions like: Do you enjoy working on your own. Does fame get you excited. Writing out direction cause you anxiety. Surprise surprise Software Engineer... Just what I love doing.
I have heard, but have not read, 'What color is my parachute' is a great book for that. There are a bunch of psychology based tests you can take to help decide on general career paths. I remember taking one 20 years ago. It had questions like: Do you enjoy working on your own. Does fame get you excited. Writing out direction cause you anxiety. Surprise surprise Software Engineer... Just what I love doing.
When I finished school, I had a lot of biology major friends, who were real passionate about biology. At the time they could only get low paying jobs in a human waste water plant. They envied me for being smart to choose CS, they thought I did it for the money, not realizing it was passion, and I could have had the same problem they did.
Likewise When I was laid off, about half of the other who were laid off, claimed 'Oh thank God. I have always hated programming stuff'.
Once again, it is a balance. Very few get the best of both worlds.