First of all, forget the &quot;success is taking in a huge salary&quot;. In fact, forget the whole BS &quot;winners and losers&quot; american mindset which is not the case in most other parts of the world.<p>None of your &quot;failures&quot; are that much of a failure or even unique to you.<p>Dropped out of college? Millions of Americans never even been there.<p>No job, no money? That can be fixed.<p>No friends except one guy? How many real friends do you think most people have? You can always meet some new people anyway.<p>24 and still living at home? Not too uncommon either. In fact in some places in Europe you could be 30 and still living at home, or even worse, 40 and coming BACK to live at home because of the crisis.<p>First get a job and some apartment. It doesn&#x27;t have to be your dream job, but should be easy enough to do so you can hone your coding skills further and try to get a coding job. Even McDonalds are nothing to be shamed for.<p>Oh, and millions of people rebooted their lives after much worse situations, from wars that left them with no family, friends, money AND country, to accidents that cost them their job and life savings to medical bills, to prison...