Should I move out?

Hello everyone,

I hope everyone is doing good and having a good day. I am a 25-year-old male who is still living at home with mom and dad. I am at the point in my life that I am starting to become mentally depressed over this due to my self-evaluation. I’ve read articles explaining how any young adult who is still living at home after the age of 23 is considered to be a low life or someone who is a failure.

Let me explain a little about myself. Ever since I was eighteen years old I have been working full-time jobs and part-time jobs. During my high school times I never once thought about my future or college. I never even considered what I even wanted to do. I just worked, to be honest. Then we as a family moved to Georgia since my father’s parents who are my Grandparents became sick. I was twenty-one years old when we moved to Georgia. During this time I went to a technical school to attain my fire certifications to get on with a fire department. After school, I landed a job at a fire department at the age of twenty-one since the school was only one semester. During the job, I was sent to EMT school to attain that and after attaining my EMT I was working as a Firefighter/EMT. While running emergency calls I realized how much I enjoyed the medical field and taking care of patients. This led me to want to pursue a degree in nursing. I was twenty-two years old and when I turned twenty-three I ended up getting fired from the job due to conflicting interest with the job and my pursuit with nursing. I was upset with this because I was attending nursing school part-time while working full-time and they fired me just because they say me planning on leaving after attaining my nursing. After this, I had a vehicle that was paid off but ended up totaling it due to weather conditions and my lack of maturity. I regret this completely but there is nothing I can do. When it ended up getting totaled and I achieved the money back I used it to pay off my student loans. The crappy part is I did not end up attaining my nursing degree because recently my parents are planning on moving to Pennsylvania. I was twenty-four now working full-time for an ambulance company making 13.50 an hour. Two months before I turn 25 I landed a seat in a paramedic course. Now I am in paramedic school as a stepping stone to get back on with a good fire department and eventually use it to get my nursing. I am now working in a low-income fire department while going through the process of getting on with a better one right now and working my part-time ambulance job.

I am saving up for a vehicle right now that is going to be cheap. Roughly 4–8k most. Other than a car payment I will not have any debt. My student loans and paramedic school are all paid off. I have made my mistakes in the past but I just wish I could make up for it. I feel like a loser and a bum. I am working roughly 60+ hours a week between my fire department job and ambulance job.

I made a monthly budget for an apartment. You can copy this link and paste it in another browser.

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With my budgeting, I would have roughly 300 dollars left over each month and this worries me. I am not sure if this would be a good idea to move out. My plan was to do this for a year and then once attained my paramedic move to Texas for this one company that pays paramedics $60,500 starting off. I just have to deal with this until I graduate paramedic school in February 2020. I personally just can’t be in my parent’s house any longer due to how depressed I am becoming seeing myself as a failure and a loser. I want to be successful and I hate feeling the way I am feeling.

Thank you for anyone who has taking the time to read this pathetic post. I understand you all have lives and too anyone who took the time to read my post, thank you deeply.