use the pub money to learn some skill that interests you. Take lessons, go to a night class, join "toastmasters" or other similar service/civic interest groups, go to a coffee house or a reading room, pool hall, video game place, art galleries, museums, auto clubs, whatever makes you take an interest in life. Volunteer for the local animal shelter, join groups who help others with handicaps or other struggles. Where is your heart , what occupies your mind, what are the most fun things you ever did in your life. Add more of that to your life!
the more you develop your own interests the more you are interesting to others. Best wishes.