I’m currently a first‑year computer science student, xdx, and I’ve loved tinkering with computers since elementary school. My family’s situation is decent, with no direct financial pressure. If I used my parents’ money to just lounge around, I feel I could get by for a lifetime. But, like the original poster, I still have the desire to earn money. Because even if I’m not greedy, society still judges you by your earning ability, including your parents.
I think you need to figure out whether making money is truly the ultimate purpose of your life. If you feel forced by others’ expectations to pursue earnings, you should adjust your mindset and just live the life you think is right.
Every time I reach a crossroads, I think about this question, whether it’s choosing to go abroad, internship, employment, graduate school, or just simply deciding what to study next
I still want to code for fun, ah, it’s so hard
When I was in first or second grade of elementary school, I would look at newspaper job ads to see which jobs paid well, and discovered that programmers earned as much as eight thousand, which was double the salary of other jobs, and I instantly decided to write code. Looking back now, the most lucrative jobs are actually those that don’t post newspaper job ads.
