<prompt> Human: Current situation:I live in a storage room with rotting floors that has made me sick a couple of times this year. I badly want to move. Very badly. I moved into and have stayed in this place because I am able to save 400 a month.Edit: It appears people think I live in a storage shed or something similar. To be clear what I mean by storage room, I live in a storage room of an old mobile home. Im essentially surrounded by boxes but I have space for my yoga mat or whatever its called 6x2 folding pad. Its my own personal room, so to speak, with carpet from the 80s smelling of old cat piss and shit...I dont know if thats better or worse than people thought, but there you have it.Now I have 4,400 to my name. I own next to nothing: laptop, phone, clothes, mini fridge, 2-burner camping grill, two pillows, blanket, a yoga mat for sleeping, and my car is all I got. But its all I need right now and it will all fit in my car.I have been awarded a federal grant to take a coding bootcamp. It is 4 hours across the state. So, if I do this I will have to move. If I had a tent, I would just try to camp edit: yeah, everyone is right. Camping isnt an option during the late FallWinter; so scratch this idea.I am currently reaching out to friends to see if they have friends I could stay with, but nothing has materialized yet found a friend to stay with! Heck yeah!.Its a 16 week bootcamp from late September through January in Omaha, Nebraska.I am just trying to brainstorm options because I want to make this happen.I am currently in retail sales and hate it. 30 years old and finally getting my life together.This could be my ticket out of this entire situation retail sales and storage room.My employer hires software developers too, although those jobs are in Texas, California, and other states more than 1,000 miles from me. Software developers start out at 75,000 base pay for this company and take home is around 99,000-110,000 depending on bonus.Needless to say...I want that, and the job listings say they DO NOT require a bachelors degree in computer science or related. They want to see portfolios though. I am not expecting to get that salary right after the bootcamp, but after a few years I could always try.Right now, there is 0 chance I will ever come close to six figures in retail sales. Based on my situation, here are my questions:1. How do I approach my manager to discuss this opportunity? I would like to ask her if I can just go on non-paid leave while I take the coding bootcamp. Then come back and apply for software jobs within the company. Im skeptical Ill get anywhere near 100,000, but I could 2-3 years from now with extra training. The problem is, I am asking her to hold a job for me that I expect to leave. Also, I dont want to put myself on bad terms with her because well, I just dont want to do that. Secondary to that is I need her and my direct manager as good references for the future. I dont want to piss her off by asking for a leave of absence during the holiday season.2. How much money should I be willing to offer for a room to stay in from friends of friends that I have never met? With only 4,400. I feel like the max I could afford is 200 per month 800 total. That would leave me with 3,600 for 4 months for food and whatever else fuel is paid for by the grant. Hopefully I could pay less or nothing for the couch to crash onroom to stay in. But how should I manage my money? All cash so I see exactly where Im at each day?3. Is Airbnb even an option for 16-weeks? I dont need much, just a place to sleep. I will be in bootcamp from 8-8 every week day and on weekends I would probably be at the public library doing more research...or mixing in with the other homeless people, lol not really laughing.If it helps, I was hired as a temp and they liked my work enough they created a position for me. The district manager has already said that when anyone of us leave team of 12 people they wont hire anyone else because we are over staffed.Even if my current employer will not save the job for me, I still think this is a really good opportunity. If I could get to Omaha and take the coding bootcamp, complete it, and get a job, my life satisfaction would be so much higher. Also, the worst case scenario is I am back on the job market for sales, just in a different city.What are my options here? From a financial perspective, I think I have to take the chance. Thank you for reading.Edit: I would essentially use this coding bootcamp as a foot in the door and get experience. Then I would try to find employers that have tuition assistance and get my bachelors degree in computer science part-time while I work full-time.Edit 2: RIP Inbox. Wow, I appreciate all the comments. I will get back to them when I can. As for now, I am off to the library for some books and I am checking out Code Academy and Coursera to get a leg up on the code camp.Edit 3: For those wondering how I got into my situation. Lets simplify it like this: Graduated college in 2011, couldnt find job, first person in my family to get a degree Depression set in, then got out of it. Used my last 600 to play poker in Council Bluffs full time. Turned that 600 into 12 months of living expenses Couldnt do poker full time any more because putting rent money on the table got too stressful. Got part-time job where a friend worked, commission cut four times in three years as cost of living rose, good friend and manager died of a heart attack at 28 years old. Kinda got depressed again. Stayed at job moved in with co-worker as commissions were cut again Co-worker caused a bed bug infestation which led to me losing all of my belongings Moved away for better opportunity Didnt find that better opportunity, unemployed from August 2014 to July 2015 Found a part-time sales job Chose to live in a shitty place for 100 a month to save all of my money so I could move to China and teach English. The week of July 17, 2016 I applied for a teaching job in Shenzhen, I found this grant. I saved 4,400 to move abroad and now I have an opportunity take a 10,000 code camp for free because Im a poor mofo. Posted to reddit. Here I am.That sums up my last 5 years of life from age 25-30.Edit 4: Unfortunately, I do have debt. 42,000 student loan from the federal government that is on PAYE pay as you earn. At 6.5 interest it adds on another 230 in interest each month. Then I have a credit card in collections with 9,200 that I am currently trying to negotiate. It will probably take all or most of my 4,400 to get rid of that debt. Oof! Its my own fault though.Edit 5: For those saying Im an idiot for staying where I am, I appreciate your forwardness of criticism. However, it was either this or paying 600 per month in a 1BRBA or 400 in a 2BRBA. If I did that I would either be living straight up paycheck to paycheck or worse. Living the way that I have allowed me to save the money to get out of my situation. Looking back, I could have gotten another part-time job to help build a savings faster. Regardless, Im in a position to get out of the living situation, and out of the town where jobs dont exist and nothing ever happens.tl;dr: I make piss poor money living in a piss poor storage room with the opportunity to get out of it all by way of taking a 10,000 coding bootcamp for FREE but its 4 hours across the state. How do I make this workAssistant: If I had a tent, I would just try to camp.You have a car. Why not just try to sleep in that?Human: Oof, it is a 2000 mitsubishi four door sedan and I am 65I barely fit in it trying to drive. But, I could give sleeping in it a shot tonight just as a test.edit: my parents have a 1990s style jeep cherokee, maybe theyd be willing to trade me vehicles while I do this. This way I could put the seats in the back down and sleep back there. Although fuel would increase substantially. They get about 12mpg in that and I get about 26mpg in mine.edit: just talked to my parents and the jeep wont work. Dad said the engine is going out, stalling, and it needs new tye rods SP?. So...back to the car I go!  <response>: If you live in your car, get a gym membership for the showers! 