Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?

How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
Wish I haven’t touched a computer when I was 10.

This is going to be “short”, no need to write a perfect essay to show my today's position.

I’m a 26 years old “entrepreneur”, I’m adding the quotes for several reasons, I’ve been coding since I’m 10 years old, building websites and games to play with friends and people online. Since that day I haven’t been away from a computer for more than a week, I wake up, computer, I eat, computer, I computer, computer. I’ve made mobile apps, IoT hardware, t-shirt prints, xbox games and lots of more stuff, I’m not going make a long list here so if you want to read more about my projects, visit: http://cabada.mx

I’ve written more than the equivalent of 32 Bibles (around 4M lines of code) since I touched my first computer, how much have I made from that? Zero, zero, zero and zero. Why’s that?

• My dad has always told me that doing taxes is a pain in the ass, that I shouldn’t get into making money that fast. (I’m really pissed off with this one, I’d go back in time and fix it)
• When I was a teenage, coding was my “outside playing”, “T.V. watching”, “Nintendo playing”, so it was something I enjoy and by that age I didn’t have an urge of earning money. Maybe it become a habit of not looking for money in coding and only enjoy to see how people use your stuff. I really enjoy coding.
• I didn’t live in a city where you can make money easily out of coding, people are too closed-mind. (I know this isn’t a constraint nowadays, but it kind of feel like it was one when I was a teenager)

Is it now the time to make money? I think I’m way off... I should’ve been making money since I was 14 years old, I had an online game that reached over 100,000 registered users, all client-side and drawing made by me, (you can YouTube it (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ildom), but I was like “meh” it’s a pain in the ass to do all the operations for getting money in my bank account, taxes, business registration, etc, my brain was receiving signals like: “stay away from taxes and business stuff”, “just code for fun and enjoy it”, “you’re just a teenager”. So, I’m not going to blame my parents for not “helping” me with taxes stuff, I should’ve just not listened and do it myself.

I receive no support from my parents:

• My dad owns a business that has been running for 30 years, so he wants me to join his “empire”. He wanted me to study something related to running business and MBAs. My parent has “cried” so many times for me to join his business, but I just don’t see myself behind a desk running an old-fashioned business.
• Being creative, coding and knowing how to connect the dots, from their point of view is something anyone can do. He compares my AI algorithms with someone that runs social media for a business.

The no-support, plus living in a city where nobody talks about AI, coding, creativity, entrepreneurship, etc. give no motivation on continuing doing it. I was living in another city for university purposes, I lived on my own for 7 years. Now I’m back at my parents house and there’s no day that my parents question about my life, I don’t blame them, I’m 26 years old and still live with them, I was supposed to be living on my own making my own money, it was part of my plan.

I tried to look for a job out of my city, but no luck, I don’t know what’s the deal with coding interviews, but I bet they don’t work good. I’ve been rejected from:

• Google
• Facebook
• Magic
• Uber
• Holagus (Mexican startup)

There are two possible reasons I didn’t get a job: Either coding interviews don’t work, or I really suck at coding. (Which I doubt, I encourage you to visit my portfolio http://cabada.mx)

I’ve lost my path, I don’t know what my plans are now. I have no social life (all my friends have left the city, I can’t stand my city culture), I have no support (parents say “I’m wasting my time”, “There’s no way I’d be making more money than what their own business make”), I have no motivation on continuing coding.

Right now I’m running 2 startups, an IoT one (https://hivee.io) and a Bot one (https://talkbot.io). I’m adding code to them day by day, but with these no-motivation days I don’t know where they are going to end.

How can I believe in something? If I’m the only believer here. Wish I haven’t touched a computer when I was 10.

P.S: Sorry for my non-optimistic writings, is a way of relief.