1st - MOVED away from your current location, seems that the majority of your issues involve your current location.

To want change you need to make decisions that will have an immediate impact. Not doing so will only prolong your current problems.

There are jobs in certain areas, but expecting to find something with a smaller population, very low probability.

I have seen many help wanted signs in businesses, auto tech, heating oil home delivery, pizza makers. Might not be the greatest jobs, but signs are posted.

Helping others is something one should be doing in many situations, you have helped, but never expect someone to help you. This I have seen first hand, several different times. So now I do not expect nothing from nobody, yet I will still help ones when I can.

You and only you can and should be the one that gets your life together, you're young and mobile.