How to build emotional intelligence/empathy?

About all I can promise is trying to be more helpful and supportive of people on here.

I can't promise anything IRL. I am very limited as to what I can do for others, aside from giving them helpful advice. I simply have scarcely limited potential value to other people. Besides, how am I supposed to help others when I struggle to help myself?

I would honestly rather just focusing on working, learning, and building my online business during the day and playing games or occasionally logging on here with what little free time that I have by night.

I think that your ability to help others is far greater than you realize. Some ideas would be to tutor young people, perhaps at a youth shelter, or to help out at places like a soup kitchen. You can likely find opportunities locally through, for example, contacting local government.

Helping others is actually one of the best ways to help yourself. Specifically, helping others in person is one of the best ways to develop the empathy and emotional intelligence that you want.

I myself have found that taking my gaze off of myself for a time, and opening myself to others, has been very helpful.

Volunteering would require travel time out of me though. Since I don't have a license or a car and probably won't any time soon, expecting me to go up to a soup kitchen is asking a lot out of me when it is hard enough for me to get to and from school and work.

I might try something like that later down the road. I just can't right now.

I would just like to clarify that I am not "expecting" you to do anything. That most certainly is not my place. I am just offering, from my own learning and experience, a response to the original question of how to help yourself. I wish you well.