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Similar position, but I dropped out in the weirdest and stupidest of ways. Still managed to get a job in the field because demand is still high as fuck and many people don't even know what code is. Job was terrible, ended up quitting after 2 months. Now I'm in my parents' home thankfully, also at 22.
I have no idea what to do, to be honest. As a kid I wanted to write novels but I shelved those plans for instilled fear of failure. Code seemed like the next best thing to write, but working on actual production systems is no learning Python the hard way.
I have better knowledge and skills than many people, but no paper to back them up and most cripplingly very little self-esteem due to always being financially propped up by my folks.
Your situation sounded eerily similar to mine, anon, but somehow even worse. I have faith we'll both "make it" somehow, but I don't know how. I wish the world wasn't such a dog-eat-dog hellscape and I didn't constantly feel like I have to prove my own hard-to-measure worth to whoever it is I'm interacting with.
