[Serious] People age 18-40s, who do not work or go to school, what do you do in your daily life? How do you sustain it?

I'm 24 and I'm currently unemployed. I'm getting money from the dole and I live with my parents.

I get up in the morning and have breakfast at some point. Depending on the day, or how I feel I may not actually get dressed in something other than pyjamas, I have Crohn's disease, I don't really have many symptoms luckily. Worst is constant fatigue, some days I get up and just basically wait until I can go back to sleep at night. I usually end up procrastinating a bit sometimes so that is stuff like reddit or having a look around the house for stuff. Then I do various things depending on the day, I help around the house with whatever, do a bit of a tidy up, make breakfast/lunch for myself/parents

I also write a fair amount, 3 short stories a week (I use a blog to keep myself doing it.) I try to have them be at least 1000 words, if not longer. I crochet and recently started gardening a little.

I felt/feel like I'm in a rut really. Like when your car is stuck in mud and the wheels just keep spinning. At first I tried to get out of it, I applied for jobs after I finished college, but nothing was happening and eventually I just kinda gave up. It was/is super demoralising.

Recently I've started trying properly again. I've broken stuff down into really simple, smaller steps to help me push myself out there. I've a list made of the steps I've to follow to improve my life in little ways that will lead to larger changes. I'm hoping that if I get a bit of momentum going it'll start fueling itself. I'm also looking into therapy too as I tend to get super anxious about stuff, so I want to find ways of dealing with that because I let it control my life sometimes.

I've decided to go back to college as well so hopefully this time next year I'll be employed and in college.

My overall goal is the be a writer, with enough income to allow me to live off my writing. I'm not talking super rich, just enough for bills and food would be great, even if I couldn't afford anything else. In the mean time I'd be happy with almost any job. I get along well with my parents (and they don't charge rent either, which I think is stupid, but they won't take money from me no matter how much I insist) but I still want to live in my own place. I want to feel like I'm worth something as a person. I want to go on a date with someone (the rare times that I actually do) and not feel ashamed or embarrassed about my life. I don't want to feel like a burden to my parents. I want to be an actual, contributing member of society.

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