I know, the most obvious answer would be to save up some money, but in my small town this is seemingly impossible. I’ve lived in this town my whole life (I’m 20 years old) and i’m pretty much failing at life at the moment. I didn’t really have a very good childhood here, and everyone who lives here never leaves and gets stuck here. I don’t want to spend the rest of my days working in some mill or at a shitty fast food diner, but it seems like i’ll never save up the money to leave. I would appreciate some words of wisdom or simple criticism, anything that may help me start my journey.
Just do it and turn tricks to get some cash. You may think I’m joking but I’m really not.
You just go,
If you aren’t ugly as fuck you can always try prostitution
Honestly the military would be your best bet.
Not trolling 4 years navy where you will be in little to no danger of anything other then boredom and a shipbord accident will be the ticket out of small town forever.
Just be smart with your cash and try and get into a good field that carries over to civilian work well.
Like aeronautical mechanic.
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Beat up some of these guys
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[]Try to move in with some relative outside of the town
[]Get the highest paying job you can and stick with it until you move out
[]Always look at the retail market for an affordable place to live (Affordable means you can put down a down payment and pay the rent. Buy the property if you can and if you have no credit history, you can actually get around that)
[]Look for means of Passive Income, Income you can earn while you sleep. Bill Gates makes 3 Million dollars every night while he is asleep. Aspire to be that, read up on passive income.
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This. Probably the best bet as a last resort…aside from hooking…
if u r a girl:
find guy w money
put lips on his cock
sucky sucky until he explodes
collect money
Yeah Military will take you around . alot of friends i never expected to go any where or do anything, it saved them and navy is your safest bet and most when out from what they learned ended up with great private sector jobs when they were done…alot i expected to be local tweekers if not for the military.
Sell drugs, small towns are mad poor, but they make up some of the most consistent drug users and customers. Or try to sneak on a greyhound or something, it’s not like they have the best security. The old school answer is jump a train, but that’s only if you live near tracks.
walk, duh
Everyone I know who couldn’t figure out what to do but wanted out decided to go into the Navy. You’ll hate the shit you go through, but it’ll give you discipline and you will have credentials to secure some sort of job (rarely to your liking, however.)
I personally am going through the same shit (year older than you though) but the military won’t take me due to my medical conditions (and I’m hilariously out of shape, but that’s something that can actually be fixed.) If you can’t handle basic (and let’s be real, not everyone can) you either go into…well, prostitution or odd jobs. Saving money through odd jobs is possible: you just have to accept that you’re going to eat hella ramen.
Get friendly with everyone you can either way, because connections are everything. Being a loner or anti-social gets you fucked real fast (and it’s hard as hell to move out of this hole if you fall into it.)
I dunno, if he did go the military route, it might turn into Rambo First Blood.
Do you already work at a mill or fast food place? If you want your goal and dreams bad enough, you will find a way to save up and get out of there. You have any buddies to roommate with and share costs?
Sell yourself.
Make the shittiest possible rap music. Somebody will inevitably sign you, but only if your music is absolute garbage.
The reason you can’t leave your hometown is because you haven’t acquired a Pokémon yet, you have to go talk to the professor about this first and once you’ve acquired one you should be free to leave your hometown.
With it being so easy to apply for jobs online now, finding a unskilled labor job shouldn’t be that hard. Your best solution would be to:
- Figure out where you want to live
- Search Craigslist, or online classifieds in that city for unskilled labor. You can even find low-level tech jobs with decent pay this way, and be trained for it.
- Find an apartment or an affordable house you can lease that is either close to where you work, or that you can catch public transportation from. You save money that way. Even look for a roommate.
- In order to get the money you need to move sell all of your shit, except some form of entertainment and necessities.
It’s easier to start over in an environment you want to be. If your able to sell your stuff in order to pay two months rent, and you have a job that can pay your bills suitably you can buy all that stuff back.
Another route would be enroll in a community college in the city you want to live, and apply for financial aid.
I know plenty of people that have done this in Houston for a year, and used the extra money to pay for housing, normally they would get about $3500-$4500 back because tuition was so cheap.
After the year they would have resident status, and would have cheaper tuition at the university they really wanted to go.
You gotta be like The Incredible Hulk.
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Some sturdy shoes and a good backpack is all you really need…do you have any kind of super power? Probably not, so you should probably start saving some money. Once you have sufficient funds to rent/lease an apartment or house in whatever state, start looking for a job there. Once you have a job, move.
Assuming you don’t want to go the military route (which imo really is the best option for you at this point):
Network. Try to become friends with everyone. Eventually, it will open doors for you and give you access to opportunities you may never have had access to otherwise.
It will take time. It’s not for everyone. If you’re anti-social, it might not be for you. But if you’re charismatic and friendly, it may just be your ticket. Keep in mind it will take several years for you to build a meaningful network (getting to know people through people you’ve met through people you’ve met), but if you can upkeep it and stay in touch with these people, it really does pay off. I have seen it in friends’ lives as well as my own, and I never believed this when I was younger, but the saying really is true: it’s not about what you know, it’s who you know.