Back in the days...

Parents: get off that computer it will get you nowhere in life!

Me:But im programming not playing games..I want to become a programmer...

Parents:programming or games it's all the same! Take an example of your sister who actually achieved something with her studies (she's a doctor)

Me today asa computer engineer...receiving paycheck higher than my sister who is a doctor and not to mention I got a car of the company and living very comfortably.

Parents can't believe it.

#rekt

Moral of the story: never let anyone tell you what to do. Keep doing what you truly love and get real good at it!😉

@Jase to late for what?

I agree! and even if you dont earn a feckton of money, using public transportation but still do what you love, it's the right choice!

@Jase it's never to late! How so?😃

@singleton
You bet m8

My parents said the same thing, "you need to get off the computer and do your homework" (I was in college for business).

A lot of my homework was in excel or online so I just always told them I was doing homework when I was programming.

Over the summer I got a small job doing development and they kept pestering me to quit because I needed to get ready for the next college semester when I got offered a really good job, they were absolutely shocked. Finally after telling my dad how great of a job it was and showing him a lot of other people who were developers without a college degree he agreed that doing this job was a better idea than going to college full time :D

Similar happened to me. Still get asked by people when I'm going to get a job. They can't understand that I have a job on the Internet, working remotely, where I make more money than they ever have at any local company, engineering or not!

If I insist on this, then they ask why I'm not dropping money on them if I have some. And then criticize me for buying things for myself. Just can't win. People aren't rational.

The same thing is happening to me right now. I'm gonna show my parents this, thanks man!

@fbomb I imagine the only way that this "computer fad" goes away is when the "electricity fad" goes away.

@klonky exactly.. Money is good to have, but it's not a full measure of what will make you happy/satisfied/rewarded/etc.

This same thing happened to me. My dad once called me an Internet Junkie. My sister told me I need to stop dreaming and get a job. I now make more than both of them.

Yep. Awesome moral.

@NathanDoesDev Hoping it would happen for just a few days... oh listening to the whining from people on fac.... waaaait a minute... hehe

My parents are just like yours were in the past. I have a little gaming channel(not uploading too many videos because I don't have much time these days), am studying Web Interface Development, would like to have some work in full-stack develolment, but ultimately I'd love to be a Game Developer. My parents think that I'm basically unable to take care of myself. With web I'm most likely to get a job, as opposed to food production technology I spent years with and which THEY pushed on me. They are extremely inept at tech for today's standards. And they want me to be this impeccably perfect creature -_- Which, as they failed to notice, doesn't exist.