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Excellent advice I also give! If your main passion is something other than making money (I know plenty of people whose primary passion that seems to be), I guess you can't really go wrong with trying to do something you're good at and passionate about for a living.

Back when I was 17, I enrolled into a CS focused high school (we have these trade specific ones in Germany). It was right after the dotcom bust. My class was rather empty. I got lots of comments about how "you can't get rich with computers anymore". For me, and the other folks in my class, "who cares?" was the answer. We'd been obsessed with computers since we could think, seemed odd that anybody would get into it just for the money.