Cold, hard, simple fact - the only way you can get money without somebody else telling you what to do is to win the lottery. Even if you start your own business, you must answer to your clients.
I've supported myself since I was 17, my parents couldn't afford to look after me. I barely liked any of my jobs, but they bought in the money. The fact that you are able to work and don't because 'you don't like it' is quite simply disgusting to me. Get a job, any job. If you don't like it, look for a better job while you're working. Keep doing this if you have to. If you're not sure what you want to do, try temping - call an agency, set up a meeting to do a skills assessment and tell them you're willing to try anything. If you don't like it, you don't have to stay, but at least you got paid. Plus, temping generally pays more than a permanent job.
You say being dead broke is the worst feeling in the world - so that means you think it's worse than being told what to do all day. Isn't that motivation for you? If you want to be successful, you need to own up to your choices. Right now, it is your choice to be making no progress towards that success. It is your choice that you are not working towards the career that will eventually make you happy. Better to take a few steps in the wrong direction and find out you need to turn around, than stay stationary.
Yes, I realise that this sounds very harsh and abrupt, and probably mean etc, and I could have toned it down and softened it, but since you asked for 'someone to get through my thick skull', and being straightforward (or maybe tactless) is a particular talent of mine, I decided to serve it up straight! |