I'm young and I'm already burnt out on tech work. Could I get some life advice?

I'm young and I'm already burnt out on tech work. Could I get some life advice?
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I believe that you can help youself by learning some bits of development and existential psychology. Development psychology describes some common kinds of personality crises, and it helps to understand what going on when dealing with concrete life story. Existential psychology can give advice what to do.

So my advice is don't start making abrupt changes in your life right now. I think that your last failures can make anyone to feel depressed and to lose faith in himself. You can stop trying to find your place in tech, but it not be good to do it just because you feel depressed.

Give youself some time to learn youself, at least half a year. Read some books or talk with psychologist -- some kind of existential psychologist will do, I believe. As for books, I personally greatly like Kegan.[1]

If you see that "kicked in three month" is a pattern, and you don't understand what precisely causes it, I believe that it needs some research. It is hard to do such a research without external help, it can take years of struggling to understand is cause external or internal, if it is some of your psychological traits causes it or something else. You need someone with whom you will be able to discuss this topic honestly. Again psychologist is one of the options. The others is some close relative, it is better if she thoughtful person and about thirty or older.

There are two opposite possibilities for you, either take sharp turns on your life path, or try to adapt. I assure you that in either way this is not the last time when you face such a choice in your life. So right now the most important goal is to learn how to deal with it. How to make conscious decision that will lead you to success and happy life. It is impossible to master this, but nevertheless it becomes easier with practice.

[1] https://vividness.live/2015/10/12/developing-ethical-social-...

Also, lol, you are in your teens (17-19) and are tired of "adulting". Let me laugh a little more

At least it's better than it used to be. Used to be quite common for people to work for zero dollars or very close to zero. In other words outright slavery.

But yes, it absolutely is a goal for most businesses to just use their employees to make as much money as possible, while the owners take in as much cash as possible for as little work as possible. That it the reality and it is quite unfair.

It is confusing as a young person when everyone accepts this situation and won't complain about it. But you will learn, complaining about a common problem will often just make you a target. Even if it's a common problem that other people could use help with. Get with the program -- pretend you are a happy little worker and shut up.

The solution is to get yourself into the ownership class, either by actually building a business or some social manipulation (easiest is to convince someone who likes you to give you money to invest in your idea). Then it is your job to pay as little as possible and get the most out of your employees so that your friends can get the most out of their investment.