<prompt> Human: I grew up diagnosed with autism and my diagnosis was recently removed two months ago. I found out my parents were originally wanting to make me as financially dependent as possible so they could get disability payments off me. I sent myself to university, in hopes to become independent. I have four classes left until I get a bachelors biology degree with a minor in computer science planning to do bioinformatics, genetics, or genomics. But I got mononucleosis and lost my part-time job that was supporting me while in school. Ive been looking for over two months now for any job that might take me. Im looking for more full-time, since Im doing school part-time until I graduate. It would also give me enough money to save for moving to a better area after I graduate. I live in Inland Empire of southern California. I hate it here and desperately want to move after I get my degree. My university covered all my tuition and over half my living expenses, so I chose here for financial reasons.I dont have a car nor a drivers licence. Parents refused to let me use their cars to get licence, wanting my prospects as limited as possible. Friends dont have cars I can use during appointment times at DMV. Extended family doesnt give a shit about me. Almost all the jobs I qualify for lab technicianscience require a drivers licence to drive the company or county vehicle. I also dont speak Spanish with English. Help desk and telemarketer employers told me bilingual people are preferred, and I never hear back from them.I tried calling temp agencies in the area, who say they are looking only for people with prior experience in physical labor and clerical work. Must have a car. Never hear back from fast food or retail. I tried doing sales, but Ive failed every interview. Maybe because I look 15 years old even though Im 23 year old male? I look really young for my age. Maybe they can tell Im more introverted? Every time I come in for the interview with a big smile on my face and ready to shake their hand they just look so...disappointed. I just dont know.I know how to program in C, C, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML. Teaching myself Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Ive taken over 40 units in computer science at university. There are no programming jobs I see advertised here in the city I live in. All the programming jobs are at least twenty minutes away by car. Six hours one way on the bus.Now that I can work full-time, Im thinking of becoming an independent programmer. But I have no clue how to do that. I have enough savings to cover living expenses until the end of November. I would go back to school in January-June when my last four classes are in session. Any suggestions for me? Ive tried a lot of different things, but nothing is working.  <response>: According to my friend who use to work at Dunkin Donuts in high school, they put all applications away and only look at the ones where someone 1. puts an application in and 2. calls 2 days later to say hey, I put in an application, did you get it? Then they look at it. So you might try that. But you dont want a job there and shouldnt get one.It sounds like most of your problems can be solved by getting your license.You are not the first person to have to learn to drive as an independent adult without parents or a car. Heres how it works.You can pay driving schools to teach you to drive. Its a few hundred dollars, which is a lot of money, but not insane, all things considered Germany, it is very costly. You use their cars. I lived on the other side of the country, but there the driving schools always pick you up and drop you off for your lesson. Part of the lesson is bringing the student that was before you home, and picking up the person after you! One of my chauffeurs dropped me off and it was literally her first time driving. Driving school cars have a brake in the passenger side for the instructor to use to prevent accidents, so it was fine, though the instructor used the brake for that one.You can also add-on the option where they pick you up, and drive you to the exam where you also use their car.Pro-tip from someone who failed her test the first time and the second: figure out how long you have to wait once you fail your test, and schedule a second test for that date, even before you take the first. 