<p>Perhaps you should just decide that your career will be focused on making money. Instead of trying to be the best math teacher or ornithologist or welder or what ever, decide that you will focus your energy and goal on becomming wealthy. </p>
<p>This does not have to mean the currently hated "fat cats’ or “1%” stereotypes who are portrayed as focused on wanting to be rich for what are ignoble reasons, and taking advantage of others to do so. Many of the wealthiest people I know care about making money for the freedom it brings, for the ability to send kids to whatever school they can get into, for the ability to help others and give back. They are not focused on the greed, avarice and gluttony, or the desire for things or others to know about how much they have made.</p>
<p>If it is your desire to be able to give your children the gift of an education, that is, to me, a fine reason to focus on earning money rather than some other pursuit. </p>
<p>I own a business and have employees who i treat very well. I do not take advantage of anyone in business and deliver a valuable product people are willing to pay for. I really like what my business does, but it is also a means to giving me and my family freedom and choice and opportunity.</p>
<p>It partially, for you, comes down to what do you want to focus on. Sometimes you can’t say I want to be a great teacher or ornithologist or welder and still expect to have the financial ability to send my kids to expensive private schools. </p>
<p>It is good to think about when you are young, as you are doing, because some of the repercussions pf decisions you make now are long term. Finally, if as you say, you will have to assume that you are paying for school starting at kindergarten you need to think about generating sufficient annual income for this expense. It would be hard to save enough in terms of assets to pay for 13 years of primary school and presumably 4 years of college.</p>