Do you still depend on your parents for up keeps asides from your salaries?

And how much do you earn, seriously sinceeyou said you are 18 and have got interested in bitcoin from the age of 16 that means you have the passion, and can trust bitcoin enough to wait for the price to appreciate over a long period of time, so if that be the case, it leads us to our next point, which will make the above question easier understood to answer.
If you are earning enough money, from your salaries and not depend on your parents for extra money and you know that after paying your bills you have cash left over for investment, I advice you buy bitcoin and hold for at least 3-5 year's to see how much profits you will have accumulated by that time.
But if you still depend on your parents for anything, that means your cash flow may not be enough and the burden will still be on the parents which justify their stance on the matter.

You have developed a passion for something that's worth it, and your parents being against it did not even give you reason to back out of it, which shows how passionate and a decision-maker you are.
 
Now that you have started making little earnings for yourself, you can now afford to purchase that which you have so much admiration for, but while doing that, I will advise you to use a small percentage of that earning to acquire bitcoin, as you still have other bills to pay and bitcoin profit doesn't come in an instant; it takes time, and you will need to be patient.
 
With time, if you continue earning and keep on accumulating, you will bag a lot before you even realize it.

You discovered Bitcoin at such a young age which I am sure a lot of us here in this forum would have wished. I too wish that I discovered Bitcoin when I was younger so that by now I would have had a bigger investment already. But there's no point in crying over spilled milk so I just try my best to accumulate as much now. You're lucky to have found Bitcoin early in your adult days.
It's good that at 18 you already have a good sense of financial responsibility. Your parents might have not supported you before but at least that did not stop you nor discourage you. Keep going and goodluck!

Bitcoin itself is free from any fraud, but there are many bad people out there who make bitcoins as victims to create victims. For people who have sufficient insight, of course bitcoin is not something bad, but for people who don't even understand what bitcoin is & how it works, they will view bitcoin as a scheme the same as Ponzi.

I'm proud of the OP, he remained firm in his stance even though he didn't get support & had to wait 2 years just to invest in bitcoin.

Not all jobs are "physically demanding" though. It all comes down to your skills. Of course all jobs require a lot of effort but there is a difference between someone without skills working at a construction site and a skilled programmer sitting in an air conditioned office.

Even investment in bitcoin (or anything else) to make profit is demanding. You need to work at it, endure stress, spend a lot of time analyzing the market and take big risks that could come with big losses as well. It is not like you just buy bitcoin and become a millionaire after a short time.

If you have the chance to invest part of your salary and hold that investment for some years, the you will find success in this crypto World, some investment can give bigger benefits, but the secure way is to invest in bitcoin and hold all the way. No one say it would be easy  but is the right way to go.

If your parents don't believe in bitcoin then provee them how wrong they was.

At your age, most people are still fascinated with buying video games and spending money on liabilities. Investing at this age is a good thing and you will not regret it in future. Your parents are speaking based on their level of understanding, and I don't blame them. Before the computer age, you had to go to a physical office every day for work, but this is not the case now. People can make good money from remote jobs and also engage in other online businesses like trading. I will suggest that you keep working and accumulating Bitcoin. Hopefully, you might make enough money from it that will make your life a comfortable life in the future.

it's not wrong to be passionate about something like Bitcoin right from a tender age, it's totally your decision to choose your area of interest and most of our parents that don't know what's the big deal with regards what's popular in today's century might not have it all figured out when it comes to the subject of Bitcoin but as a young person that's not yet balance financially you have to know how well prepared you're as you plan to start investing early enough. At 18 I didn't make it a big deal about taking my finances seriously up to the moment I almost finished my university studies. If I could take myself back in time and do change anything about my past decision, I would have loved to have taken my financial life seriously even while I was in school and so if you're 18 and you're not distracted by all the vices and interest that comes with such age range, I must applaud you for that.

However, you have to also set priorities right as you go about investing in Bitcoin. Set the right financial plan in place before you start investing. Your skills are important and a strong source of finance is a necessity, set these in order and when you're done doing these you can be comfortable to invest as much money into Bitcoin as you want to.

I always recommend everyone read the book "The Richest Man in Babylon." Read it yourself, and suggest that your parents read it. They will understand, or learn, that physical labor is, of course, respected by everyone, but being the one who receives passive income from the physical labor of other people is always better. I will not explain why since any person should understand this himself. So, having investments and creating a business around yourself that brings income—this is not at all what your parents say about physical labor.

Yeah, I think majority of members here still believes that we should really work out ass off to earn money and be rich in the future. Although in crypto investments, there are a big chance that we can earn a lot by simple buying and then holding, just like a passive income.

But I do go with the old and traditional way of earning money thru jobs, a 9-5 in the beginning. At least we will learn a lot from people who we work with, from our peers to our bosses and who knows, maybe if we become entrepreneur ourselves, we will used that knowledge to our advantage. So we become businessman, traders, and investors and then we become successfully wealthy.