> They excitedly started telling me about how they were doing all this work to groom their young son (age like 6) to go into tech. Does this actually work thou

> They excitedly started telling me about how they were doing all this work to groom their young son (age like 6) to go into tech. Does this actually work though? My whole life, I've been weakly encouraged, mainly by my parents, to study economics and/or law, and discouraged (weakly by my parents, and strongly by society and bullies) from being a geek / programmer / mathematician... But in the end, I picked the latter.