Career Advice: Stay as SWE or Take a Pay Cut for a SOC Analyst Role?

The poster is a cybersecurity student deciding between two career paths. Option A is staying as a full-stack software engineer (SWE) with a higher salary, stable hours, and a potential permanent role, but without direct security work. Option B is accepting a SOC Analyst L1 position at an MSSP with a $7k pay cut, rotating shifts, and limited promotion opportunities, though with a verbal promise of priority for a Detection Engineer role if available. The poster’s long-term goal is to transition into Security Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, or Security Architect roles.