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How do you deal with being broke?
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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You can try to check which expenses could be avoided, look for a better job, study to get a better one in your spare time, get a part time job, do some random tasks in Upwork, etc
You could also legally move to another country and work remotely, earning $1k USD/ month should suffice to have a decent lifestyle almost anywhere, although gentrification is becoming an issue in some places.
Coming back to the stress, you could talk to a therapist and see what could help that situation. Maybe some journaling and life planning could help you identify what's going on with your life and how you can deal with it.
You can try for customer support, legal assistant, virtual receptionist, virtual assistant, scheduler, appointment setter, or just go into sales if you are good at that, all of those pretty normally don't require any experience at all.
If you have some good tech skills you can also go for help desk or it technician.
Btw school would be ideal to learn something but it's not the only way to learn, you can try Udemy or just YouTube to learn a lot of stuff that could help you land a new job.
Lots of ways to educate yourself for a new job. You could take night classes at the local junior college if you have some money, or you can find free things online that would relate more directly to the sort of work you want to apply to. E.g. learning the basics of Excel at night for a month.
Post questions here if you're looking for specific resources. You'd be surprised what you can find online for free!
Other comment has great recommendations for the sorts of jobs you could do with minimal experience.