[Th3Proph3t]

Well, as some of my friends on this site know, I am 16, turning 17 in March here soon (yay!). Life has been rough for me (not a pity thread), and I am tired of having nothing to show for it. This year has been largely successful for me, and I have turned my life around completely. My first two years of high school were a complete drag. I went from a drunk with my knife to my neck contemplating suicide, and have completely changed since then.

I have looked for structure. In 9th grade, I narrowly passed all of my classes on the mark, this was the year I almost offed myself. Last year, I made all A's and B's but I failed my math class. I tried to play Basketball again (I am really good at this sport) but the odds were against me and I quit to focus on more important things. I picked up MMA from past martial art training.

This year, I have gotten a lot smarter. I have been on my all A's, beasting MMA, and I actually starting getting good with girls. (I know right?) I have been getting life planned out for me. My GPA is a 3.1 after last semester (up from a 2.9) and I was told if I made all A's and passed this Math class that the F would go away and I would have a 3.3! If I pass all A's next year, I could be a 3.5 or 3.6, and would be (sadly for the education system) in the top 10 percent of my class (which means I could probably get into UC Berkeley)!

But there has been a lot of setbacks. My moms unstable mental health and credit finally fell out. We have been living off of $628 a month and $130 in foodstamps. Back in August, we almost died in a terrible car accident, but as a result we lost our car. My mom filed for a Chapter 7 (I believe) so we could get rid of $45000 of debt. But we are stable right now.

I am wanting to help out a lot these days, but it has revealed that if anything is going to change, it is 100% in my hands. I want to get a job. Americas job market is absolutely terrible though, and I would have to walk everyday for a month or two to work before getting a vehicle. But my friend's granddad offered to sell me and my mom a 1978 Ford F150 (man is it nice!) for about $1000. It needs new brakes, tires, a drive belt as the old one is cracked, and the radiator is starting to pucker out. I figure from junk yards and from discount parts stores, I can buy the truck and fix it up for about $2400, me being the one fixing it. Then we would have a vehicle and a method to get me to work.

But should I work? This would kill me doing MMA, work and school everyday. What should I do to make the money?

[Havoc]

I could help you fix the truck for cheaper then that man. Especially if we hit junkyards and such. Put your family first over your MMA stuff.

[1234hotmaster]

wow i'm just glad you survived the accident :8-s:
and glad your getting A's :thumbs:

[Th3Proph3t]

Shidd man, the only family I got it is my bro, mom and grandma. Everybody else can eat a dick in my family. If you can help me get it fixed up cheaper, that'd be great, but I want to do it 100% right the first time, cheap isn't an option if its not right. Even if I put a total of $2500 into it, its a '78 Ford F-150, steel body, lol. That motherfucker ain't EVER going down.

[Havoc]

We got this haha. You know I always got your back.

[Th3Proph3t]

Respect brotha!

[Amzer]

For making money I suggest You: e-whoring, making programs and putting them @ shitcash. And with the job: We all can see, that You are very good with computers etc. Do Your best, and for example start repairing Windows'es for money, or deleting viruses. And I don't know how it is in USA, but here at Poland You have To choose Your future job profile like chef, programist, logistic etc. So if You are intrested in programist, them choose it. World is now around computers only, so programist will be high payed job. I'm sorry for my english mistakes, but I'm Polish, cmd I'm still learning...

@edit: Havoc's got nice sig tho

[1234hotmaster]

forget Poland, in Iran you can do anything! put a poster in the middle of your school that hacking for $$$

or sell backdoored CD's to CD shops

or get $$$ for hacking sites

or get $$$ for coding programs

or set up a website for $$$

or even make a yahoo account for $$$ :rofl:

[SoulStealer]

well you are into a big problem i know....But as you said you are stable now i think you should concentrate on your studies first that would like create a economical backup for you and your family ......Because after studies you will get a job and would earn better than doing this part timers.....

also you getting popular with girls is good but the thing is if you dont want to be in a mess just avoid girls for sometime......Concentrate on studies and then you can do job.......you are 17 common dude live your student life wont get another one

[Th3Proph3t]

@SoulStealer -
Yeah, girls ain't the number one issue on my plate right now, so you are right on that man. I am trying to get a little bit deeper into this semester to get more stable in my classes, then I can see if I can handle to job or not.

@Amzer - Yeah, that is what I do a bit of right now. Most of the people I know are computer savvy; they can fix shit themselves. I have enjoyed using Wix.com to make fancy ass flash sites for people.