I'm lost, I have no talent, no skill, and nowhere to go. What do I do?

[lightbulb27]

your view is very negative and you are indulging in addiction games. rather than working on positives and things honestly, you don't even know you have... I'll get to that...

for perspective, similar to me. I had tried various things and was mediocre.. music, golf, racing motorcycles, socially awful. School... B student at best. Small in size, no way sports. Military, no. Hadn't touched a female, and ran from every one that tried to get close.

End of HS, my father said which college program do you want to go into... medical or computers (saved my but)? I had just barely spent a year playing with a TRS80 color computer, typing in programs, playing games... I didn't understand and had no concept of electronics and computers. 10 years of medical was a no, so I said "computers". I went to college, a terrible student. 1st class they show me "sin" "cos" in an equation on a board... I'm like "what the F is that? They are using terms to explain things I don't understand. So I dove into high school books, worked on college 17yrs a day for 4 years... not 1 party, not 1 date, no alcohol. and worked part time. Graduated top of class. Hard work... focus... simple as that. Get a goal or goals.

For you, school does not value the greatest of human gifts... empathy, compassion, vision, leadership? I doubt you know you have some of these. You need to find some things you have passion about that align with $. they could be:

Technical
Video game developer or create your own business around this
Robotics
Networking (computer networks)
Bitcoin/cryptocurrency developer
Java/. net developer/database analyst

Social
Psychology and/or counselor or social worker. I'd prob do social worker for the flexibility. We need those!
Life coach
Sociologist
Journalist

Medical
Nurse

Pick a domain and start a busines
For my 2nd career, that's what I did.
Painter - with a few tools you could do that. you can at least make some $

Look for domains where jobs will be growing, pick amoung them. choose one and do that. If the $ isn't there for school, figure out. Military I think is not for you.

Every day, read business journals, talk to people, look at job posts. This is the hard way, but you need exposure. I never once thought of becoming a computer programmer... which is what I became. I fell into it. You will have to do some work and just start doing it

ditch the games until you have a plan. you got 10 years to work this all out, then you can find a mate. I wouldn't find a mate before you have a plan and are working on it.

[winterfox10]

The answer is that you simply do. You NEED to stay in constant motion. If you stop moving, you move backwards.

I used to be like you. The big change I needed to make was the people I surrounded myself with. I ended up leaving town (but that was something of an extreme situation). The truth is that you need to fall in love with being uncomfortable before you ever become good at anything. Let me ask you something that no one has asked you before and I want you to answer this with the first thing that comes to your mind. In your perfect world if I was going to pay you to do something for me, what would I pay you to do?

I'm not asking you the "what do you want to be when you grow up" question. I'm asking you a tricky question so I'll rephrase it because I certainly didn't understand the first time someone asked me. If life was perfect and everyone always got what they wanted; how would you WANT to add value to people's lives?

Forget about what you're good at. Forget about what options are apparently available to you. Respond with your answer

[Inquisitive3]

You're genuine, honest and you're great at drawing. You just lack confidence anon. Look, everyone has times when they don't feel good enough but you are good enough, you're here on earth for a reason. It's only you that is limiting you. Start by offering services online (drawing) for money. Maybe draw portraits from pics. You could take some classes in digital art and make logos for companies... you just need to believe in yourself buddy.

[007kingifrit]

well you're going to have to get out there and get a basic job.

also. you don't practice things you are passionate about to succeed in life. that's what you do for fun

don't follow your passions. follow your opportunities

[Sevenpointfive]

i guarantee you haven't tried everything, so don't stop learning new things

[Anonymous]

My life’s sucks too. I live in my car and freeze every night. I failed at basically everything in life too. Probably always will, I wanna kill myself pretty much everyday. But I know deep down that I genuinely don’t wanna die. The worlds a big mirror and you get what you give. I used to think that was some bullshit, but I definitely get exactly what I’ve given. A whole lotta nothing.

[b5fan]

First you have many talents. You can write, read, and think. Use those talents to attain new skills and try new things. If you find that you like one of those things pursue it.

[joeldalton]

If you spent as much time learning a skill as you did wasting it on video games, think how good you’d be at it.

[red_knight]

I feel your pain bro.. why not start to develop the skills you say you're good or okay at? Everyone has to start from the bottom...

[Anonymous]

Get a job at Walmart. With no talent or skills you might even become a store manager.