u/AhaImAnonymous

Edit: The "fast" in the title is intended to be around 5-10 years. Sorry for the possible confusion, I didn't think that through.

Hi everyone! I'm a grade 12 student about to enter university in Toronto (stupidly picked the wrong course so I'm aiming to hopefully do well in year 1 and transfer to a BComm in a good school) and my parents honestly never did well financially. My dad is the only working person and makes like 70k before taxes so like idk maybe we get around 40k yearly (?).... Its a labourous job and he is old and injured so I don't wish to continue living off of him. My mom doesn't work due to personal reasons. They never wanted me to understand our lower-class situation. We live in a bungalow and honestly, our situations is pretty bad because we have mold in the house and many broken things that should've been fixed.

My goal is to hopefully be able to transfer into a BComm, graduate on time, and get a stable job hopefully earning maybe 60k+ if I'm lucky. Maybe I can even get a part-time job during university if I can handle it.

Can anyone give advice on how to earn maybe around 100k fast in this economy if I start from 0? Honestly after graduating, I'll likely still be living with my parents so I can save up the money I earn. It's just that I'm afraid that I wont be hired or something happens. I don't think I can handle living past 30 at this point and I want to give my parents money so that they can live a bit better. They had me at almost 40 years old lol and I'm now 17. I want to leave them with some money that they can actually use for their enjoyment rather than just household expenses and the yearly visit back to our home country to take care of my dying grandparents which I think is around 10k per ticket in economy class?

Now that I'm about to start uni and with Ford changing the policies so that my tuition will mostly be relying on loans rather than grants, how do I save and earn money fast? I was not planning to be here anymore after high school but the more I reflect, the more I feel bad for my parents. I'm an only child and female. I never really planned what to do for university and as a job so I'm completely lost...

I don't enjoy the idea of possibly selling innappropriate things and I can't get a part-time job in summers because I have to be abroad and the laws there don't allow for foreigners under 18 to work part-time. I really hope I can balance university life with a part-time job because I genuinely struggle to find motivation and focus on tasks, though that is a skill issue lol.

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To anyone reading, I made a very stupid decision.

So I'm taking IB in high school rn and like I already applied to programs on OSAP. Because my bio and chem are awful (60 ish% in bio and 55% in chem) my first thought was like maybe I should be an English teacher because that grade was actually okay. The rest of my grades are pretty average like low 80s or high 70s.

Anyways, I applied to a lot of BAs for English and 2 business related programs as backups... Now I hope to go into business but like the only things related are York University's BA in Business and Society and TMU's BA in Economics and Finance hons. program....

I'm frantically googling like transfer acceptance rates into BComm programs in good universities and they recommend for me to get above 85% in my first year university and I would only be considered.... I'm so scared and like my family isn't well off either so my goal in life is to increase my chances of landing a permanent job that pays above 60k and is stable so I can support my parents.

My math isn't too strong in terms of like advanced topics like calculus, quadratics, and logs and my english is good but not good enough to be constantly writing essays analytically. I'm currently doing my IB exams now and I feel that a business route might be my best bet because its not as complicated as other things and the jobs are relatively in demand compared to teaching jobs.

What should I do and will I manage to get into a business uni or BComm? Is anyone else experiencing this or am I the only person stupid enough to make this mistake... My classmate got into the TMU business school and even if I wanted to go there I'd have to make sure my uni grade will be good enough first year. My high school grades are pretty average like hers but I know for a fact I'll struggle in uni because of the 1h ish commute time and my inability to make friends....

(Sorry for posting this too on the York Uni reddit section, I'm so scared and I need to accept my offer soon and idk what to do anymore so any advice is STRONGLY appreciated...)