If you smell what the hoov is cookin <| sep |> At your age , you ' re transitioning from immaturity to adulthood . You saying your single mother supporting you didn ' t help is evidence of that . Would you prefer she didn ' t do anything for you ? If so , would you be posting about how tough life is because your mom didn ' t support you ? I ' d bet so . You clearly recognize the mistakes you ' re making , and that ' s important . More important is that you don ' t make them again . You can ' t just say oh it ' s because of where I live or how I was raised , people succeed who were worse off than you . As the other poster suggested , donate plasma . Don ' t bounce from job to job . My question is why would you bounce if you ' re making the same money ? Stick with it and work hard . Start eating smarter . I have several friends and even relatives who lived out of their cars for a couple months so they could get back on track . Hell , I used to eat a plain baked potato for dinner when I was broke . Just be good at whatever crappy job you do and you ' ll keep it at the least . You ' re growing up , and growing up is hard . but you gotta do it .