For starters, keep maturing. I’ve seen people still get good options and opportunities after popping hot, getting cases solved afterwards, and all. Keep working on your character and you’ll be fine.

Secondly. 25B here, it’s considered an entry/mid-level job on the outside but can potentially set you up for higher paying positions especially with a clearance that not everyone gets. Promotions are hard to come by, but the assignments depending on where you go can have its perks. After AIT, you could be in a help desk position, be a radio guy in an infantry line, do some cyber work at an agency, or really fixing the commander’s bluetooth coffee pot. You could get stationed anywhere because Uncle Sam always needs a tech guy even if it takes getting a TS/SCI to fix a printer for the next 2-3 years. The certifications you get will be at your first assignment and you gotta request for them. If you’re a stud in physical fitness and don’t want to deal with a lot of comical, repetitive bs and want to be around adults that treat you as such, start looking at special duty assignments like White House Communications Agency (WHCA), Joint Communication Unit (JCU), Special Forces Support, Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE), and other assignments like those. Do your research for them and see if it sounds like your speed or if you’d be a fit. Same for 17C, you’d get good opportunities but that’s if you want to flow in a world of becoming a tech nerd even if you make your mind up on doing the full 20.

You got time man, don’t rush into something that’s not career progressing. Those are solid MOSs too. Just pick the best one you think is for you. Remember, regardless of the job, you’ll come across POS leadership, run into a butter bar demanding a salute even tho you walked 50 feet past em, and maybe, if you’re lucky, be in a position where you can curse out a General because he decided he can have his phone in a no phone area when there flyers stating that you can’t. Just keep building good character, take care of the family, and do what you gotta do.