I grew up poor, in the projects of NY. My father died when I was five and I was raised by my mother alone. I think that constitutes as "poor". I'll give a 10,0

I grew up poor, in the projects of NY. My father died when I was five and I was raised by my mother alone. I think that constitutes as "poor". I'll give a 10,000 foot view of my younger years. I learned how to program on my own in the 90s because my school had no books or anything. I got my first computer when I was in college. I didn't study computer science or anything technical. I kept programming/hacking after school/work. I did eventually get a programming job and I kept hacking after working. I eventually got a brilliant idea to charge money for something I made (after having made hundreds of open source projects). People started paying for my tool. I was making $500,000+ USD per-year from my tool alone. I quit my "full time" job and kept doing what I always did, hacking on stuff. Do I regret anything? No. Would I do anything different? Probably not. I guess the only advice I have is "charge for it".