How come you are old enough to be employed (your employer pays taxes as you work, and those taxes might eventually go towards supporting your parents in their old age), and yet not old enough to manage your money? Have you tried opening a bank account on your own? Do you have your social security card on you? I assume you do, since you must have submitted it to the employer's HR department to get the job. It seems, from reading your posts, that your main issue is that you do not have any practical means that would work towards your independence, and yet, everybody is telling you to find yourself. Of course it would be infuriating to be in your situation.