If you'll permit me to share some wisdom with you, I'm a bit older than you (20, which could be mountains by your reckoning). I do consulting now in sunny San

If you'll permit me to share some wisdom with you, I'm a bit older than you (20, which could be mountains by your reckoning). I do consulting now in sunny San Francisco and am altogether very satisfied with my pay, station in life and the work I've accomplished hitherto. I'd like to think this gives me some ground to speak on. I was once in your shoes, given my lack of any sort of advanced age, I was wholly without opportunity. I endeavored in various fruitless directions before my first real financial success (inasmuch as a 14 year old can be financially successful). The biggest bump to my career (also all-around credibility) was the first open source project I ever did ( http://zv.github.com/work/swiftcrack/ http://zv.github.com/work/swiftcrack/ ). It may be true that it was only able to attract a small number (19,000 downloads) of largely Japanese fans, but by Jove, they were rabid. When all was said and done, I made around $5,000 shooting the shit about wireless security to people interested in my work (forgive my language). I'm firmly confident that none of them had the remotest clue I was 14. I would do something like this if I found myself in your shoes (like maybe become an expert of NoSQL databases by working on the hit new database thats sweeping the land called Artifact??? zv.github.com/artifact ).