Which of the jobs suits me best?

Question

In this question I'll give you a description about my interests and ask your opinion on what should I do in the future.

I am 16 years old by 2019, studying science stream in Malaysia Independent High School. Race is Chinese if you ever need that information.

So since I'm about 4 years old or so, I'm interacting with computers a lot. Just like other children, I play a lot of computer games. But there's one thing I noticed, different from the others. Whenever the Internet connection is broken in my house, I try to fix it myself by exploring into the UI of the Windows XP operating systems. When I was 7, I found Google a powerful search engine for various troubleshooting for networks. Networking is a big part of my childhood.

When I was 9, I worked with Cheat Engine. I get to know what a string means. I've first found that a string means a bunch of characters, and then only I learnt that string means a cotton wool line stuff in one of my English lessons.

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Answer 1

As i see you love programming so i suggest you to make apps and games, but most important is to do what you love, so if you have chance try everything from your list and find what you love most. Imagine that you already have that job think about all good stuff and all bad.

Answer 2

Apparently since I get to know Cheat Engine, I was starting to be curious about how games work. And then, the question become vaguely enough that I need to know how computers work. Why did the cursor move when I move my mouse?

Age of 11, I've won the champion for computer knowledge competition in my primary school. That surprised me. I always thought that what I know is known by many of my friends but I was wrong. My friend doesn't know how to use Google, how to create a folder, what's the difference between cut and copy, and many many stuff. I do. I was really shocked and felt in love with the world of computers.

Age of 14, out of curiosity about the question: how apps work, I started to learn programming. I started off learning C++. I've learnt about variables, functions, loops etc. Fundamental experience of programming is being built slowly.

Age of 15, one of my friends made a game all by himself using Unity Engine. I was amazed and asked for his help on my interest.

Answer 3

I was hired to be part of his game development team. This is where I've learnt C#.

I then took a break from programming and went for HTML and CSS.

I've also found that I had a potential in Maths. I've found that I'm, well, a bit smart. I started participating in math competitions and eventually gained enough problem solving skills.

I combined my love in programming and maths and started participating in programming competitions. I won a gold medal on MCC (Malaysia Computing Competition) at the end of 2018 (age 15). C++ is then officially my primary programming language since I need it for contests.

I also got to know about Machine Learning. However, I didn't got any chance to learn it because of the lack of time. I spent most of my time doing programming, maths and preparing for examinations.

Today, codeforces.com, atcoder.jp and hackerrank.com is the most visited link on my Web browser. I like to participate in their contests to improve myself. I also started learning networking.

Answer 4

I excelled in Maths. I've learnt for loops before summation so understanding summation become very easy for me. I've learnt about stuff like Cauchy-Schwartz inequality which is not teached in school at all.

I've been learning Calculus. It will be teached next year. I also explored complex numbers a bit and this will be teached after next year.

I somehow find myself a bit of interest in physics too. Not big though. The main reason I'm in love with physics is due to the General Relativity Theorem by Albert Einstein.

I'm also mastering several algorithms in computing. I'm also interested in computer architecture. (rams, gpus etc)

Here's a list of careers I'm interested to go for:

-Web programmer
-Web frontend
-Game programmer
-All other sorts of jobs that requires programming
-Mathematicians (or I'll just make this a hobby)
-Math Teacher (I like explaining stuff)
-Computer Technician

Any suggestions? Thanks. Sorry if this was a bit long.