I am 17 years old and currently in high school. I'm studying to be a programmer and it's going really well. My life goal, the dream that I want to achieve one day is to fully understand C++, a programming language. The thing is, since my mom and dad don't have a lot of money to keep stuff running, my dad begs me to make android apps, to learn something completely different and something that I'm not comfortable with myself..

Should I stop what I like to do and destroy my life goal to sacrifice my career even more and start learning what my dad wants me to do? It's a really tough decision for me because without my dad I'm nothing and nobody :(