Yea, I mean my parents couldn't really afford to be in the house we were in until I started to have a job. I bought my mom a Minivan. Sometimes they couldn't p

Yea, I mean my parents couldn't really afford to be in the house we were in until I started to have a job. I bought my mom a Minivan. Sometimes they couldn't pay for heat to get fixed. Or all the times I ate Ramen. Or the fact that I wanted to be a MCS major but really had to have a CS degree. But, I know many people that I went to school with who were unable to do so and had the same opportunities that I did. Or had more money than me and couldn't get a job after they graduated. Even the people that I had the same high school weren't able to do that. They had more money than me. They were smarter than me. The only thing I can see that I had more than them was grit and determination. My intelligence wasn't even in their league. I chose CS because I knew that an average person in CS could get a average job and the demand would be there when I graduated. My life is a constant hedge against the future.