second, I've been constantly battleing with life's assertion that a career and education makes us who we are. I dropped out of college and beat myself up about it needlessly. You made the choice you made and now your dealing with it, who's to say your not a smarter person than if you had stuck it out in school....Plus I live in florida with half-ass schools, and many people drop out and get geds and go back to college and have great careers...my husband only made it halfway through 9th grade and he finished a bachelors and has a great job...he also lived with his parents while doing it....Dont feel like liveing at home is horrible, I know it can be tough trying to bring a date home, but it many societies people stay with their famlies and build from within...at least your helping them pay the bills, my brother in law lived at home till he was 32, and never gave his parents a penny, or help clean...he could of at least cleaned and cooked.....sorry....dont beat up on yourself