In what direction to move?

Question

IT education

Good afternoon! Now I'm in the 10th grade, soon - exams and the transition to adulthood. I have chosen a direction of activity for a long time - programming, my heart lies in this.
I started with PHP about 5 years ago (maybe you know such a thing as DevelStudio?). Naturally, the knowledge is superficial, the language is pleasant for its lightness, but it annoys with its "stupidity" in some places and, nevertheless, its focus on the web.
Then there was C# - on it I wrote applications for mobile phones for the "Scientific Society of Students" and other nonsense, while I had lumia. The language is pleasant for its flexibility, but annoying "heaviness" in some places.
C++. Having read that this is one of the fastest high-level programming languages, I received a "freebie" book about the pros and began to study. I won the city Olympiad, but it didn't go any further - the language is too complicated, and I never wrote things that require such speed.
JS/HTML/CSS. Played with twitter bootstrap, wrote a site for a local cinema and supported it - for free movie tickets. I wrote an extension in JS that gained popularity on peekaboo and which now has a stable 300-350 users per day. How to develop further - I did not come up with. In general, I like JS, I'm not interested in HTML/CSS.
Python. I liked it terribly, although I discovered it recently. Writing on it is a pleasure. As for me, it is ideal for Olympiad programming. The main problem is that there are few alternatives to work in the future.
On the little things, I dabbled in Java (android) and writing all sorts of things for the arduino.
So, to the point. I have time to understand what I need in order for me not to get lost in life and be able to support my parents (they are already retired) financially.
If anything, the city is Chelyabinsk. There is no python here at all.

Answer 1

If you want fast growth and easy money, I recommend Web. Learning how to make web applications, services (NOT business card sites on Wordpress) is now worth a lot and is in great demand. I do not recommend PHP, better choose from Django (python) or Rails (ruby) and develop in this direction. Understand the full development stack, up to deployment on a VPS (and here you have Linux administration and databases and mail servers and a bunch of other interesting things). But with this baggage of knowledge you will definitely not starve and there is always the prospect of growing into a business. The fact that there is nothing in your city does not mean anything at all - now you can easily work remotely and earn many times more than "local".
I am indirectly familiar with gamedev, mobile and system programming, but I have heard that the entry threshold is MUCH higher there and less luck.

Answer 2

With examples
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqcSTBWD9JI

Answer 3

If you can win the Olympics, bet on it. Having a diploma, it is easy to enter a good university on a budget.