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I suspect my answer is going to make some people unhappy with me....
Folks, we all have to support ourselves in some way. For most that's a full time job working for someone else. For some it is a combination of part-time jobs. My suggestion is to sort out what works for you in your situation. Reality is that the world is not going to provide you with food, shelter and medical care for free.
For those who think working for themselves is the solution be aware that you can end up working w-a-y more than 40 hours a week if self-employed. I was self-employed most of my adult life. I owned a stable and taught people to ride, trained horses, boarded... you name it I probably did it. I worked 7 days a week/365. The horses didn't care if I was sick. They wanted to eat. The horses didn't care it was a holiday. They wanted to eat. The nature of the business is that most of the money I earned went right back out for feed, farrier, vet, etc. I ended up working a second job at night in order to support myself. My "life" was work with the horses during the day. Come in grab a shower and dinner before heading to the night job. Work 6-10 hours there. Come home, fall into bed and do it all over again the next day. And the next, and the next.... Why did I do it? I loved what I did during the day. It filled me up inside. The night job did nothing to fulfill me, but it kept food on the table and a roof over my head.
When I was a teen I thought that in the ideal world we would all do work that satisfied us and provided what we needed materially. Heck, I still wish the world functioned that way but it doesn't.
My suggestion is to wort out what your passion is in life. IS there a way you can fulfill that passion through a job? If not, what about finding a job that you don't at least hate and fill your passion outside work. There are evening hours and weekends for that.
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