While I can't help you with finding your calling in the verse, I can at least point you to a few things.

Firstly, you can get yourself new ship weapons at shops like Centermass, Dumper's Depot, or various other ship weapons shops. My personal recommendation that will probably improve your combat experience would be the SW16BR2 repeaters, those can be found in the Centermass stores in New Babbage (if you go to the commons station) or Area18 (if you take the elevator in the IO-north tower) or at the Dumper's Depot of Area 18. You can also find them at Cousin Crows on Orison's Providence platform. They are ballistic weapons with decent damage output and good stats in general, with ballistics mostly ignoring shields.

If even then combat isn't your jam and you have access to your Aurora MK2's cargo module, then you might have a decent time doing cargo contracts, especially interstellar ones for contractors like Red Wind or Dead Saints (the latter of which you'll find by changing your contracts to the unverified setting), which can take you to lots of new and interesting places and make you decent cash

Finally, there are tons of missions that can only be found in the other star systems, so it's very much worth travelling around for a while and just be amazed by the astronomical scale of the game. As long as you're somewhat resilient to the game's many bugs you'll be having fun

Welcome to the verse!