Neither. If you want to become wealthy - study business skills (sales, marketing, negotiation, market research, media buying, etc.) and look into starting doing

Neither. If you want to become wealthy - study business skills (sales, marketing, negotiation, market research, media buying, etc.) and look into starting doing something business-y as soon as possible. As a starting point it could be small-scale freelancing, such as making spokesperson or demo videos for brands, which would also help your aspiration to become an actor. Look into location-independent ways to make money online, but watch out for predatory fake gurus out there. Be careful with your expectations to become rich in software if you have written zero lines of code (HTML doesn't count) at this point. You may hear about six-figure salaries and lamentations on the supposed developer shortage. However getting from zero lines of code to six figure SV salary (or even any kind of paid developer position) will be a significant challenge, especially if you don't have an intrinsic motivation to do technical work. Software is a bit of gold rush right now and extrinsic motivation can only take you so far when you try to practice dry-as-fuck theoretical CS puzzles in order to pass the interview, or when debugging a gnarly bug. Lastly, employment is not that good of a way to become wealthy, as it entails making money on someone else's terms. It is in their best interest to pay you as little money as they can get away with. On the other hand, being self-employed enables you to offer your work to market on your own terms, at the price you decide. There's no upper (or lower) bound on how much you can make.