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You probably could teach English in Korea. It's a bit of a cost upfront but you get a place covered and your investment of training will be paid off fairly quick. You don't even have to learn Korean. It's fairly cheap get by unless you're a booze hound like me.

Pick a trade at a community college and get to it.

Or go get a help desk job (as you said you want to do IT) and start learning on the job. Pay will be shit. Hours will be long, but you will learn and you will start networking and you can rise through the ranks. A lot of us who are making 6 figures started out doing help desk.

You gotta do your time in the trenches.

Have you heard of WOOFing? You can get room and board at farms all over the world to go help out with their crops or whatever they need. It's not always farming and it's often a cool community!

There's an easy short-term answer: Temp agency. It's stressful because you don't know if you have work until the last minute and half your coworkers will be horrible, but it's work that requires nothing more than a pulse.

You could also see if the sports arenas are hiring. They may be mostly staffed for the season now, but they pull a lot of workers and tend to lose a good chunk each year. Best bet for stability would be kitchen, warehouse, etc since those work both between events and on event days.

In my experience garbage collection tends to pay very well relatively and requires no special education. It is taxing on the body though so not something for the long long term. Though this may be different in the US

look at getting a job on a shipping barge if you can. there's all sorts of support staff like medics, cooks, IT, etc, that work on barges. you'll get to travel around the world, "free" room and board, and you're paid quite well since you can't leave once you're on deck.

Got a bank? Pull out a personal loan. Just gotta make sure you've got a job at all to pay it off once you make that kind of a leap.

Have you looked into working with the National Parks? A lot of their entry level positions only require a HS level education, and many parks offer employee housing. I've heard it's quite competitive (both for jobs and for housing) but it's still worth considering. State parks, DNR, BLM, etc. might be an option too depending on where you live.

Dunno how to give you advice. "Want out immediately, but not so immediately as to be homeless" and "military is kinda appealing, but there might be a waitlist if you have depression." And "I dont want to do demeaning minimum wage jobs" all kinda conflict with one another. Also, the fuck you worrying about prestige for? That's ridiculous, either get in the house or get out. Prestige ain't got shit to do with it.

Postal service is a bit of a slower option. It takes at most, two years of part time work to get a full time job, but that full time job can afford rent in cheaper areas and you can transfer anywhere in the country with no pay cut.

From reading your responses, I don't think you should concentrate on moving out. Take the opportunities your privilege allows (e.g. having shelter and food) to work on yourself from that safe location. I would go to therapy and discover why youre feeling like this and in the meantime, do some work in a store or something. It's menial, sure, but it's something. If you feel like it, you can give your folks some money to feel like you're contributing.

You could look into WWOOFing. Basically participating owners of small farms provide you 3 meals a day and a place to sleep in return for helping out about half of every day. Seems like a decent option until you can get your feet under you, and would afford you enough time (the second half of the day) to figure that out.

Granted, in the winter you'll have fewer options (animals and greenhouses mostly).

can you take some community college and are you ok with blood. phlebotomy is one course and you can make above minimum wage within a thing that limits the applicant pool. if you take a few more courses they will generally pay you a bit better and you could use that as a springboard toward nursing.

Except they don't accept anyone with depression, and you have to prove you're "fine" for probably 36 months to even get a waiver.

Seeing how many soldiers commit suicide, 36 months might be too short to waiver out depressed service members. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/suicide-now-the-primary-cause-of-death-among-active-duty-us-soldiers/

hey there, i've been traveling for 15 years and taught for 7, teaching English abroad seems to fit what you're looking for.

jobs are available today in dozens of countries, several of them have no requirement other than being a native English speaker, ~25 working hours per week, it's very cheap to live abroad, so even if you're making a thousand usd equivalent a month(starting without any degree, accreditation or experience), you can still begin saving money, and since you mentioned prestige, teachers are highly respected everywhere I've been.

especially if you have no idea what you want to do, but you need to move out, get your own place and start saving money immediately, there are over a billion esl students looking for a teacher. Every month you spend teaching is valuable work experience, you can get a lifetime TEFL(teaching english as a foreign language) accreditation in a couple of weeks with a self-directed pdf course that will raise your salary and negotiating power.

if you're interested, feel free to ask questions here or in the travel community, i taught abroad for several years, retired and have been traveling ever since.

if you're lucky enough to be a fluent english speaker, it's a very low-barrier, high-reward job.

oh, and packing light is the way to go.

At this point, the question isn't if the military will take you w/ a history of depression, but whether they a would put you in a situation where you'd want to kill yourself.

I'd say if you're in a hurry, retail while you live in a car until you can find a roommate situation. While you're in your car, apply for homeless assistance, and you might land a private room in a shelter eventually, which is way cooler than the open barracks of emergency shelters.

You could enroll in college and get loans to pay for a dorm, but 2weeks is short notice and a degree is no guarantee of success. They can definitely help though, and it's good to have a well rounded education not to mention networking opportunities.

If you don't have to move out, consider staying though. You could always start with a community college or trade school while you stay.

If you're handy, some apartment/condos offer a discount on living at the location while you work there, such as doing maintenance or groundskeeping or such.

Doing maintenance isn't a glamorous job, and you'd likely be on call, but its a living and does have some career progression.

Why do you need to move out? The lack of multigenerational homes is one of the reasons that Americans are so much in debt and have so little freedom despite having the largest economy in the world.

Save as much money as you can. If you can't stay with your nuclear family, find somewhere else you can. Living on your own is a really bad idea at least until you are married and have saved up enough for a 20% down payment on a house AND at least six months of living expenses. Otherwise you are just going to live the rest of your life as a slave to debt.

Ok I know this really isn't what you're after, but have you considered taking 6 months to hike a long distance trail such as the AT or PCT? It only costs a few thousand for all the gear and permits and gets you out on your own for a good many months. Along the way you will develop survival and social skills which may find you in a better paying job. And for your dickhead brother, you could brag about that journey.

Food service or retail. Two fields that are always hiring.