<prompt> Human: Its another one of these posts and for that Im sorry but I am at my breaking point. As the title says, I am 24 years old and I have never had a job, I dont have a college degree, and I live at home. Because of a physical disability, I am unable to work labor intensive jobs even jobs that require you to stand for long periods - more than 10 minutes and have some psychological issues depression and anxiety that make it almost impossible for me to stay on a routine. I have a year of college under my belt, but I dropped out when I was 21 due to the aforementioned issues, and the feeling that I was wasting my time and money on a useless degree psychology. I believe that it would be too late to go back for a degree, as Id be almost 30 by the time I graduated and time seems to be moving faster every week. I currently collect SSI which gives me about 710 a month which I use to pay my parents rent, gas, etc. I have no debt and a working car. I cannot live off of government handouts the rest of my life, and like most people, I want to be independent and useful to society. I have an interest in programming, and am currently teaching myself JavaScript through codeacademy, but I am reading that companies will not hire self-taught programmers, much less one with 0 work experience. This is what I would like to stick with though, as I believe Id be good at it, and does not require physical exertion. If this post is a little vague, please help me help you help me. Summed up, these are my goals: Acquire a marketable skill Land a job that I can realistically keep Achieve independence from my family Get the hell moving with my lifeI just dont know how to go about doing any of that, so I come to you asking for help. Thank you for taking the time to read this wall of text.  <response>: This type of question gets asked over at rcscareerquestions all the time. Basically, companies are willing to hire self-taught. You got to work on self-projects, create a GitHub account and post your projects on there, etc. You have to get something on your resume that employers can measure your potential competence with. 