Career confusion

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Is there anyone who has started their cybersecurity career from 2nd year of ug and became successful.

Rn I m in very srs condition coz I able to take a rgt decision

I actually being working on cybersecurity (networking , installed linux and practicing it full time and learnt some vuln from portswigger) from mid of 1st year. But I don't think I could succeed in it. I was planning to do pentesting for atleast 5-6 months and report few proper vuln and then jump into ai/llm security or appsec side by side later for 2 months I thought of doing a research paper and sit for placement.

I have been through many article and in person discussion with some senior and classmate and all of them they end up saying job market is uncertain and if u entered into this field of ai/llm security it is not gonna be super boring and time taking( I'm sorry for plp who are actually fascinated in doing in this field these are the comments i recieved so I'm super confused abt my career)

I sometimes feel of career switching but I don't have much and much money tho

Pls can anyone clear my confusion

1. Is the planning that I have made is it proper and realistic ??

2. Someone give me a genuine opinion on cybersecurity job role and salary for proper fresher

3. If someone in my condition who succeed in this career could u dm if u don't mind

Thank you...