What the hell is wrong with me

I have an obsession with making money.

On anything.

I sell things I don't use to my friends.

I try to milk money out of anything I can.

If I play an online game, the first thing I do is learn the economy and start vending.

I'm too obsessed with making money.

and to top it all off, my parents won't let me get a job -.-

Tycoon in the making.

Evolution, bro. There's nothing wrong with you. A lot of people are like that. Money is survival.

you're gay

To kill is to survive. (:

:brofist:?

for what it's worth I suffer from more or less the same problem, and I'm a self-proclaimed bohemian who isn't that interested in money. Paradox much?

As if your parents won't let you get a job. I'd have assumed more parents would be pushing their teenage sons to go out and work. What, with it teaching you work ethic, responsibility, teaching you to appreciate the value of money, etc.

Artificial wrote:

As if your parents won't let you get a job. I'd have assumed more parents would be pushing their teenage sons to go out and work. What, with it teaching you work ethic, responsibility, teaching you to appreciate the value of money, etc.

must be deadbeat hippies. moteTroll:

I never heard of parents not letting their kids have a job...

Taz wrote:

I never heard of parents not letting their kids have a job...

Moi .

My parents say that I should focus more on school than a job, and that I'll "Have the rest of my life to sit behind a desk at a job."

I've been asking if I could get a job because I could do computer security, website design, or just server management or computer repair or something - stuff I enjoy and would do with or without pay.

Flareboy323 wrote:

I've been asking if I could get a job because I could do computer security, website design, or just server management or computer repair or something - stuff I enjoy and would do with or without pay.

Uh, so you're assuming you can just up and get a job in computer security/server management/web design/computer repair/etc? It doesn't work like that. You need some form of certification. Be that as it may, are you sure you're even cutout/qualified for these jobs?

Not trying to insult you or whatever. But getting those kinds of jobs are far more difficult than you think or how you're describing it. The most you'd probably be able to do right now in terms of the fields you specified is freelance. And you can do that on your own time which doesn't necessarily go against what they're telling you.

Their is nothing wrong with making money, I'm making money by buying YLOD PlayStation 3 Systems from eBay and repairing them, Testing to make sure they last at least 1 month, then reselling them for double what I bought them for.

Flareboy323 wrote:

I've been asking if I could get a job because I could do computer security, website design, or just server management or computer repair or something - stuff I enjoy and would do with or without pay.

If you're actually interested in that stuff I'd strongly suggest you pick it up as a hobby. Because like The UnIntelligible said, it's not like you can just walk in and pick up a job in those fields. Firms aren't going to hire you unless you know what you're doing (it's going to cost them too much time and energy to train you up). Otherwise I suppose you could pick it up as an internship.

For instance, I work as a backend PHP engineer/sysadmin (a job which I hate mind you), whilst studying at uni, but I've been doing this stuff since I was about 14. By the time I looked around for a job I already knew what I was doing.

I'd strongly suggest you brainstorm a project/something to build, and then:
1. Design it in photoshop
2. Code PSD -> HTML
3. Create the system in either PHP/Rails/Python
4. Deploy it on a server.

While it will no doubt be quite bad, I guarantee you'll learn a lot, and your second project will be a lot better (and then your third, etc.). Things like this also look great on a resume/college application.

Flareboy323 wrote:

My parents say that I should focus more on school than a job, and that I'll "Have the rest of my life to sit behind a desk at a job."

I've been asking if I could get a job because I could do computer security, website design, or just server management or computer repair or something - stuff I enjoy and would do with or without pay.

No one is going to hire a high schooler to do computer security. Period.
You can do website design freelance via PayPal.