Rent before you buy. Go reserves/guard first. If you don't like it then you only have to put up with it for weekends/summer/deployments. The rest of the time your at home. If you do like it you can always switch to Active in whatever your MOS is as long as you have a reason (say monetary). Plus the only thing that Active has over Reserves/National Guard is Ranger Regiment. Reserves have Psyop and Civil Affairs (though only AD PSYOP/CA are part of SOCOM), and NG has LRS, RSTA, and Special Forces.