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If you can convert your enjoyment of playing videogames into an enjoyment of coding videogames, you can make bank as a person who reads and writes computer code for a living (i.e. a programmer). You might also have to learn some stuff about software data structures and algorithms, git version control, fixing bugs in open source software, web development, cloud based web infrastructure (ex. Amazon Web Services), and software system design. You might also have to read the book "Cracking the Coding Interview" and do coding practice problems on a website called https://leetcode.com/ . All in all if you really like coding and have the motivation and talent it's possible to land a job paying $75,000 a year after two years of full time self-study despite not having a formal degree. If you have an associates degree or higher there is also a program called Revature that will train people on the job while paying them a garbage (I'm talking like $20-$25 an hour) salary for a developer, although they put you in a contract where they fine you a massive amount of money if you quit in less than 2 years. SkillStorm is similar to Revature except it requires a bachelor's instead of an associates - read reviews by people who participated in these programs before you sign up as you may get paid a lot more money just by landing a role without them. The C# programming language can be used both to make PC games on Windows and also to build websites and web apps with ASP.net (in practice most hobbyists start with video games because they're fun but end up switching to working on big corporate websites because the job market for people who want to make videogames is saturated and only the really talented and experienced people who are willing to work for lower salaries are able to get the videogame development jobs). But yeah, after 2-3 years your salary can be expected to be about $90,000 - $150,000 (even higher if you are very smart and talented, although the companies that usually pay those really high salaries like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft are not hiring now due to the recession). But yeah, it's a very high paying job that doesn't necessarily require a degree, and if you're good at it there are lots of countries like Australia, Canada, Germany, and the US that will give you visas to do that job in their country. There are also free learning resources like https://www.freecodecamp.org/ and YouTube tutorials for the various technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, ASP.net, git, etc. (just search for the name of the technology followed by the word "tutorial" and select "playlist"). Amazon also has lots of good books on each of these technologies that you can buy. There are also subreddits worth checking out like r/programming, r/LearnProgramming, r/ProgrammingHumor , and r/ProgrammingBuddies . But yeah, if you're interested in playing videogames and want to make a videogame of your own, it's something worth trying (even if you end up with something with really sucky graphics like pong or something like that). There are also game engines like Unity that can give you something with better graphics (you can Google "free C# game engines" and see what comes up). But yeah, tech is one of the highest paying and highest satisfaction jobs and it doesn't necessarily require a degree. Me personally, I got into Java programming from being really into the computer game RuneScape back in the day and that lead me to get a bachelor's in computer science and then land a job paying $155,000 a year at Amazon, but most employers don't pay that much, especially to newbies.