vng2015 said:
Can you tell me more about it?
I live a relatively comfortable life with my parents, but I do not make decisions for myself.
-- I am not free to meet certain people
-- I am not free to go back to the University
-- I am not free to increase my dose of antidepressant
It will be a struggle. Living on your own will give you some freedoms but only if you can afford it. Having money is what really gives you freedom and options. Unless you have some way of making a good amount of money, you will probably be better off staying home.
While you don't have to struggle as much now, it might be a good idea to try to find a way to use your skills to build an income online. It takes time to build something up but you've got nothing but time right now. Might as well put it to good use. If you move out, you won't have that luxury.
When I had no real job I did random online jobs for different sites. I started out spamming tasks on Mturk for like $5/hr or something pathetic like that. But it's something when you don't have a job.
Then I started getting into the search engine analysis type jobs. There are three main companies that do that and they pay you $12/hr but they will only let you work on those projects for a year and you have to take some difficult tests and do the training to get it. One of the companies was Appen Butler Hill.
When I was doing the search engine stuff I noticed that Appen had qualifications for transcription and English comprehension so I took those. Ever since then I get an email every few weeks or so about a new transcription project that they need done. The pay for these are usually $9-12/hr for a few weeks/months until the project is over. You can work as many hours as you want while the project is open. There's no limit really. The projects can be kind of interesting. This isn't the only company that does this stuff and you just kinda have to grind/luck into it. It's nothing guaranteed but it's not bad for an income on the side. When you're desperate, you'll take anything you can.
The last project I did involved correcting the automated transcriptions that are made when people ask Siri for something on their iphone. I'm guessing it was used to help train the voice recognition. I found a job half way through that project so I havn't messed around with them since then. I still get emails about new projects every few weeks though.
