Would just like to share this story here. ( Venting but, not advertising. )
I graduated highschool when I was 17 and, was trying to get a job. I filled out probably about a hundred to two hundred applications and got about 5-10 interviews. Unfortunately, I was very good at filling out an application for a job but couldn't have the social skills to get through an interview. No one would ever say yes. So many nos and no responses.
It was very annoying and I just assumed I would've ended up homeless. I got very bored during that year of doing nothing and started uploading youtube videos like crazy. For fun and for something to do that weren't video games.
When I was in school I used to slack off by doing creative writing(Teachers would think that I was working on an assignment when I was actually writing a fictional story for the fun of it. I thought I was so slick as I flunked all of those classes. XD)
Those stories are long gone but, it did develop a skill that was creativity that helped so very much. The skills school taught me weren't as useful when it came to finding a job of some sort.
That year when I was 17 and making a bunch of youtube videos with fictional plots, I didn't know I was actually a good writer/story writer but, thousands and thousands of people watched my videos. Then tens of thousands, then a hundred thousand occasionally.
I monetized my youtube videos when I was 18 and it provided food and shelter. I am very thankful for it. I'm almost 20 at the time and my birthday is coming up in a few months. It has been nice and, I am grateful that I was able to find out about my creativity.