I don’t mean to speak for op, but how would you recommend he go about maximizing income given his current situation?
He is not even working one full time job.
When I was his age, I was working full time. I was also working part time. I was also going to school full time.
Yes, none of that is a typo.
I was also not living at home with my parents while doing all of that.
Sorry, but money does not just fall in your lap for no reason. America has a great saying, "To
make money."
You make it.
Money represents value which is exchanged. Whatever you are doing is worth more to the person paying than the money is worth. Otherwise, he would not pay it. This is very similar to you buying something. An item may be worth more to you than the money in your pocket. Raise the price high enough, and you say, "No, thanks." But a restored old Ford Bronco with 33" tall tires is probably worth more to you than, say, one 10cc vial of testosterone cypionate.
Value.
Money is value.
What value can you provide?
Whatever it is, get to providing it to somebody who values it more than their money.
So how to provide value in bigboichoi's current circumstances, right now, is to work. Do
anything. But do it well. I have an acquaintance who started a lawn care related business with a pickup. Decades later he is a multimillionaire running that same business.
Others have made some specific suggestions above.
I do not know bigboichoi's IQ, level of diligence, or work ethic, so I cannot make specific recommendations. The reality is that IQ has a lot to do with one's level of income (in fact, I would argue that the correlation is far higher than most would expect and may be higher than any other single factor). But anybody, even very low IQ persons, can work a full time job and take part time work and make it in society without living with mom and dad. An average person (that's most Americans) can do better than just be stable and save and invest enough to be a millionaire before old age or retirement.
So,
work.
That's step one.
That is my answer.