I’m 19, turn twenty in a couple months. I’m trying to make enough to move out. You need to make $30,000 a year to be able to live above the poverty line in NC. I ditched college. Not for me personally. I’m a smart guy, but I can’t stand learning when it’s not on my own terms. Community college(both online and offline) felt like a prison. Now I work at a local lowes. Luckily they gave me more jobs than I signed up for so I get a lot of experience despite me being only part time. It feels good to know that others have confidence in me when, just a year ago, I was a lazy suicidal kid who didn’t know what to think.