If your parents will let you live with them until you are 30, and borrow their car then go for it... Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to afford anything. Even 50K a year is barely enough for a ****ty apartment with a half decent car these days. Try having a fraction of those things with your 16 grand a year salary and ridiculous school loan payment that tops your net income.

When you get furloughed at 35, then be prepared to have to move back in with your parents yet again.

Girlfriend or wife? Probably wouldn't be able to keep one around.

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Don't sell your soul for a damn job. And don't work for anyone that won't pay you a livable wage. That's just disrespect. If you like computers, take up programming or software engineering. But stay out of IT - because you will always be viewed as a cost center and will be crapped on all day by idiots that make 5 times as much as you but are about 1/5 as smart as you. And don't put your life on hold. I did that for 3 years and found myself in the same place spinning the same wheels only to realize I just lost and wasted the best years of my life (early 20's) waiting for something that's not going to happen or worth it anyway.