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GTFO of Yakima!
You list your tangible skills here and ask for work - anywhere but Yakima. I hear that there are some great startups in Chicago, Detroit, etc - much lower cost of living than CA or NY. BTW where did you move from? Is it an option to return there??
Embrace this. You'll (ideally) never be here again.
Is there somewhere you've always wanted to live? Move there. I'm sure there's an airbnb for ridesharing to get there. If not, start building it.
Once you're there you need to find work. Working fast food? That's cash. That's not equity somewhere, that's immediate rent paying and food buying cash. You want this.
When you're not flipping burgers, try and find work that is at your technical level. Startups, firms, etc. You probably won't find any at the get go. That's fine. Put an hour a day into this search. The rest of it? Start fleshing out stuff on Github.
Don't necessarily take the first job that comes up; flipping burgers and waiting for the right job is better than a sucky job.
Final step, start living life.
Like I said, I've never been in the situation, but that's the advice I would give myself.
Good luck.
You might look for jobs on Craigslist. It sounds like right now you're looking for anyjob, for cash/rent. Be willing to do about anything, you're not choosing a career right now you're just taking money from people without stealing. Depending on who you work for, some of them might have interesting ideas or contacts.
If you can get to North Dakota you might work in the oil fields, but I hear it's hard to find a place to stay; boom times and all.
I don't know the producer business, I'm guessing there's much more opportunity programming. Don't know your experience. Pick a language, start making stupid little things and put them on github. The first stuff doesn't have to be impressive, doesn't have to be web whiz bang, just anything that gets you thinking in the language. If you get far enough along before you get an interview you can take the earlier ones down. If you're lucky enough for someone to consider you earlier, for the type of job you might be talking about, you can point to even your small silly projects and say "hey, this is what I've been doing to build my skills."
Whatever language you pick, learn the debugger, it will teach you more than the debugger.
Read something enjoyable, it's a cheap way to do something good for yourself and to get your mind off your troubles. Make it non-career oriented at least some of the time. You can get things at the library, or a used book store. Finding a good, old, funky used book store is a delight.
Your health matters. Exercise as well as you're able. Challenge yourself to eat as well as you can on the least amount of money. Beans and such go a long way for very cheap. These two things can be some of your reading. Learn as much as you can practically use about them.
Help someone.
GTFO of Yakima!
Sounds like you're not going to find fame and fortune in Yakima. You'll have to move on. So to get you started, how about: You list your tangible skills here and ask for work - anywhere but Yakima. I hear that there are some great startups in Chicago, Detroit, etc - much lower cost of living than CA or NY. BTW where did you move from? Is it an option to return there??
start a company
It actually free and you only have to pay them once you get a job after graduating from their program. Plus the job will be in San Francisco area and will pay well like about 80K which will help you get out of your current situation and then you can decide what to do with your life after that.
GTFO of Yakima!
Sounds like you're not going to find fame and fortune in Yakima. You'll have to move on. So to get you started, how about: You list your tangible skills here and ask for work - anywhere but Yakima. I hear that there are some great startups in Chicago, Detroit, etc - much lower cost of living than CA or NY. BTW where did you move from? Is it an option to return there??
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Sounds like you're not going to find fame and fortune in Yakima. You'll have to move on. So to get you started, how about: You list your tangible skills here and ask for work - anywhere but Yakima. I hear that there are some great startups in Chicago, Detroit, etc - much lower cost of living than CA or NY. BTW where did you move from? Is it an option to return there??
He doesn't need to go all the way to the Midwest. Seattle and Portland are much closer and have plenty of cheap living arrangements. He might be in a far-flung suburb with an unfashionable address, or live in an area considered "dangerous" by locals (the "bad" parts of Seattle and Portland are nothing compared to those in Chicago and Detroit), but it beats sitting around in Yakima with no prospects.
I've heard Chattanooga is an option for tech jobs, and Tennessee is supposed to be pretty. Cost of living should be relatively low, if you can get there. Once you get there, or anywhere, do what you would do anywhere: find anyjob and work on moving up from there.
Consider local government for work.