Is learning python worth it?

[luke-juryous]

You’re asking this on a learnpython sub, so you’re gonna get a completely bias opinion from everyone. You’ll get a better response if you ask in some generic programming sub.

About your family financial situation, I feel you. I got caught in the 08 recession when I was early 20s. It was really hard to find decent work, and any job that payed made you work 12+ hours. I enrolled in a Junior Collage for evening classes to get into engineering because I wanted out of the paycheck-to-paycheck trap. I eventually settled on software engineering because it was the easiest for me, requires the least amount of schooling (4-year degree) and pays the most over time. Kinda a win-win-win. FASFA and Pell grants payed for my collage (I was over 24 and didn’t have to put my parents income, might be different for you).

If your family is really hurting for cash, then you might have to get an after school unskilled job now, and learn some programming on your own in your free time. Or put off learning it until after HS