Your grandpa, much respect, should have told you or all of us, to make the job our hobby, in order to be successful.
Also, the titles of an education will become irrelevant one day I believe, probably not in my time because there is too much money involved. It should all be about what one has learnt throughout their life one way or another, how much one is willing to learn and keeps learning, and how one has applied that learning for improving the world, instead of being a sheep, following the orders of a very imperfect world.
Apart from that, I made my hobby a job once and I lost my hobby, so I get the advice of the wise man.
. I love working with my hands. I perform all the maint on my 2 motorcycles and some on my other vehicles. My wife is ecstatic that I no longer need to provide my own tools for work. Another supported habit.
