Ask HN: In a bad spot right now in life, need advice
I can relate with some parts of this story. Used to be a &quot;throwaway&quot; kid with no future, dropped out of high school, etc.<p>The best advice I can give you is to not care about education (it&#x27;s a waste of time for the most part) and learn to solve <i>real</i> problems. Every second of your free &quot;work&quot; time (don&#x27;t forget to also take time off to go out and enjoy yourself) should be <i>invested</i> into your skills so you get a return on that investment later. When you&#x27;re doing something, ask yourself how is this relevant to your goal of earning money and whether it will give you a skill&#x2F;experience you can reuse later. If it can&#x27;t, then stop and do something else.<p>Learn a web framework (I recommend Django); web development is easy and doesn&#x27;t require advanced theoretical knowledge (where a CS degree might actually be useful), pays well and will stay relevant even in the &quot;apps&quot; era as those still need a backend server to talk to. This will also give you the ability to build projects end-to-end which is extremely valuable when you&#x27;re trying to launch your own startup and don&#x27;t necessarily have the funding to pay someone just to make you an MVP.<p>Once you do this, build a few projects, open-source them (just so you have a portfolio to show off) and then move out to London or similar non-shit town where people are valued by their experience and skills instead of meaningless pieces of paper (I am from France and this was the situation there, and I assume Spain is sadly similar although there might be a startup scene in Barcelona so maybe try there?).<p>Good luck!