How to choose a specialization in IT?

Question

Career in IT

I am almost finishing my 3rd year of specialization as an engineer in mechatronics and robotics. But in high school they don't teach much about it. Not programming, not machine learning, not artificial intelligence, etc. More precisely, the subjects were, but the teachers themselves do not know anything about their subject, only a bunch of incomprehensible formulas and all without practice. But after all, specialization is very complex and promising (But there is no work).
For 3 years I managed to master the work of technical support (HelpDesk/Service Desk). But what's next? Does this specialization have a future? What is the career progression?
Don't think that I just want to find a simple job that pays a lot. I want that job where there is a perspective, movement, innovations, interest, career growth and so on. And the money will come by itself.
In the IT field, I am interested in almost everything. Administration, support, internet of things, robotics, etc. Only now I’m not friends with software development and I don’t want to start learning.
I hope there are experts here who can help. I don’t want to start studying something seriously and then get nothing and regret the wasted time.

Answer 1

In any area of ​​IT there is growth, a career and everything that you described, I don’t know of any such area except for a cleaner in IT, and without a cleaner there is no IT (yet).
The main selection criterion is experience, in youth you have a lot of free time, you can try everything, now in general everything is as accessible as possible, I took an arduino or a raspberry and assembled a robot)))

Answer 2

Only now I’m not friends with software development and I don’t want to start learning.

then you don’t want growth and all that the
admins wrote about write scripts (I’m not talking about Enikeev) for your robot you need software, almost any piece of iron from those that are more complicated requires firmware ...

Answer 3

There is a work. To do this, you need to study Codesys. As an add-on, LabView can be useful (National Instruments only). For drawing some SCADA's.
Formulas can be practiced in Matlab (StateFlow is good for linking with Codesys, other toolboxes are for algorithms) and Python.
So there's a lot more for you to study.

Answer 4

"Only I'm not friendly with software development and I don't want to start learning."
"I don't want to start studying something seriously and then get nothing and regret the wasted time."
Seriously think that IT may not be for you. A person who does not want to study everything in a row, and begins to choose "I won't do it, I won't do it either" most likely will not achieve anything.
ANY good specialist in IT will pull on a junior (well, almost) in almost any IT field - that is, the basic level of most things is NOT wasted time.
Well, specialization and work - you can look for it as soon as you try.