If you are motivated you can learn to program well, as good as any other.
BUT: Do you envy the success of industrious males and covet their hard earned money and its attached status? Why do you want to "be one of those guys with 100 million (idol-worship)?"
The people you listed had nothing in terms of financial assets during the start of their careers. Jobs was a nobody who lived with his parents.It may be difficult for you to muster up that same level of motivation with 1 million in your portfolio.
Look, programming and computer manufacturing may have been the medium through which a subset of motivated and imaginative people created their wealth during the past 20-40 years, but programming and computer manufacturing were just the medium. The foresight of these men is what led to their success (Paul Graham is a brilliant guy.)
Do you deserve to take a job from a younger, hard-working CS guy just because you are not satisfied with your career choice? Do you think that human progress is measured in dollars? Maybe what you need is some substance in your life other than phantasies of wealth and portfolio screenshots. If you had had the foresight of the successful men that you listed, then maybe you would already have "100 million," or more! (Are you married? Kids?)
The people you listed had nothing in terms of financial assets during the start of their careers. Jobs was a nobody who lived with his parents.It may be difficult for you to muster up that same level of motivation with 1 million in your portfolio.
Look, programming and computer manufacturing may have been the medium through which a subset of motivated and imaginative people created their wealth during the past 20-40 years, but programming and computer manufacturing were just the medium. The foresight of these men is what led to their success (Paul Graham is a brilliant guy.)
Do you deserve to take a job from a younger, hard-working CS guy just because you are not satisfied with your career choice? Do you think that human progress is measured in dollars? Maybe what you need is some substance in your life other than phantasies of wealth and portfolio screenshots. If you had had the foresight of the successful men that you listed, then maybe you would already have "100 million," or more! (Are you married? Kids?)