You will have to somehow convince your parents that being a lousy computer programmer is not the road to employment. While some of the English majors I’ve known have been underemployed or had trouble figuring out what to do with the degree that was partly a function of their personalities and some of their circumstances.
Among the jobs they’ve had between them (that actually used the English degree to some extent), journalist for a local paper, children’s librarian in a small town, pre-school teacher, cookbook author, real estate developer, state representative, campaign organizer, the person who writes the music notes for a choir, children’s book author, priest.