The Best Financial Move I Made in My 20s Was Not To Follow My Passion

When I was a teenager, my parents enrolled me in a technical school so I could complete high school along with a technical degree. As I was young and uninterested in most of the careers that the school offered, my brother suggested Software because “you can earn a lot of money creating applications.” A year into that school, I realized that Software wasn’t really my passion. My classmates programmed as a hobby; they were always talking about programming languages, and even though they were in recess, they were always with a computer inventing new applications. I was the complete opposite. I tried to avoid thinking about programming at all costs and only did it when I had to do homework for a class. In my breaks, I liked to read and talk with my friends, and outside of school, I did anything except programming. <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/12/passion-success.asp" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">On the internet</a>, we see how “you have to follow your passion to never feel that you have to work in your life” and how “passion will make you successful.” But even though I was good at creating Software, I never felt that way about that career. So, when I finished high school, I started looking for colleges that offered degrees in literature, design, or finance. But then my father got cancer, and there were other priorities in my house. One of them was that I should start working if I wanted a university degree and support my family. <a href="https://medium.com/swlh/the-best-financial-move-i-made-in-my-20s-was-not-to-follow-my-passion-4b33729b6a3d">Read More</a>