I agree with Nihil. If you are very fresh and have never done programming before then you might want to think on that. If you become a programmer and want to work on the security then I guess application security would be your only option. AFAIK when it comes to application security, the first thing that comes to my mind is secure code (which is a broad term) and cryptography (which always has a good learning curve).

If you like databases then you should look into becoming a DBA, they are paid well.

And if you sole interest is security then *nix sys admins is the job for you but not that of a good pay.