I'm 24 and will be 25 by the end of the year. I feel like I should move out of my parents's home and find my own peaceful abode.
Frankly, if you can negotiate a deal to pay rent to your parents, that would be a wiser financial decision.
The fact of the matter is that you do need to take on responsibility for your own mental wellbeing. There is a sense of pride and confidence that comes from earning your pay and meeting a requirement that everyone needs to feel. However, rent is pissing money into the wind, often at unreasonable prices. If you must rent, try to do so in a manner that allows you and a room mate to split the costs into as little as possible, but make sure your room mate(s) isn't someone(s) you aren't incompatible with.
My parents are rushing me to start working because I wasted a lot of time. So I will start working full time at a factory, or a bank, or something. Just for money to have my own, and to support myself.
My recommendation is a factory. It won't be glorious work, necessarily, but it will be one where you get a lot more practical experience than many of the service type jobs. As you have said, you have wasted a bit of time, and therefor you do want to be smart about what paths you pursue. If at all possible, you want to get into a factory or some other place of employ that has tuition assistance programs and other such things if your goal is further education. Factories tend to also have more rapid and more meritocratic promotion structures than other places, as I have seen.
Alternatively, you could consider the military. I wouldn't have recommended it under Clinton - but things are changing under our current POTUS, and for the better. There are... or were... programs that would allow people to go to college for a degree and then fill a tour of service using that degree. There are a number of officers within the military who are doctors - they are not commissioned officers even though they hold the pay-grade/rank and do not hold a command or combat duty; they are dentists and doctors for the military.
I do not know if those programs are open to "So, hey, I want to be a doctor" walk-ins off the street, but you may be able to arrange a path to such a program if that is something you are willing to look into.
Would it be possible for me to go to college and/or medical school while I work a full time job? Because I know deep in my heart, I want to help others. In order to help others I feel like I'll need a degree in social work or become a licensed psychiatrist.
It will be difficult, I will not lie. If you are looking at a factory - I would recommend third or second shift. Typical factory setups have 8-8-7 shift rotations with the first two shifts having a half-hour lunch break included in their time at work (but not pay). Third shift usually starts at midnight and goes until seven in the morning. This would free you up to take many classes that are in the morning (and you will already be awake), as if you were a 'normal human being.' Then you go to sleep around 2 or 3 in the afternoon and roll out of bed for work. Second shift usually goes from 3:30 in the afternoon to midnight.
Here is the kicker, however, Second shift is more prone to staying late in many factories. Third shift is rarely a full shift, and so it falls on second shift to finish main production and related tasks. Third shift rarely comes in early or stays late as first or second shift is already slated to those positions.
Alternatively, you could take evening courses at school and go to bed as soon as you got done with work. Which is closer to my current pattern. I wake up about 2-3 in the afternoon and crash in the morning after work. Depends on how you roll.
What do you guys think?
What degree do I need to work in a human services field?
Well, if you are going for psychiatry... then I would recommend a degree in that.
If you are looking to work in human services, in general... then there isn't really a reliable degree that I know of that is going to be of much help. The medical fields require longer courses of study and internship than most other fields. Human services is an incredibly broad field and work within it can range from having no real degree required, to requiring eight years of study, years of internship, and several licenses to boot.
