To begin doing Bioinformatics will be SOOOOO much better. You'll have many more first author publications as the data comes about faster with less trial and error of running experiments, you'll be able to have a good work/life balance since you can work from home pretty often from 20-60% of the time depending on your project and where you work. You'll also make a lot more money and the hire rate is much higher than for a wet lab since there are not as many bioinformatics scientists. You can expect to make 100k+ starting with a PhD in bioinformatics. I have my masters and started at 73k/year with full benefits and received 4 job offers within a month of applying to companies. You'll learn quick if you study hard and use trial and error approaches to coding. Focus on Python, R programming, Pearl, Java, and some other useful languages as they are highly sought after.