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America is huge and has large variation even among indivistates.
You might not be able to get citizenship somewhere else, but you can move somewhere like Minnesota who has liberal cities and a blue state government and still relatively low cost of living.
It's not easy to move states, but it's less effort that what you're saying you can't do.
America sucks, has for a while.
But globally we still won the lottery, just not the jackpot.
For now, don't worry about finding some career you love, that was always bullshit. Find something you're somewhat capable at or there's a worker shortage in
I'm pretty sure ADD is a good thing for flight controllers, it's practically tailor made for hyper focusing on a specific and very important thing. Use the money in your free time to do the art you enjoy.
Yeah I do wanna move on from just art to actually desigining physical props and costumes and stuff. As for STEM, I am a bit interested in coding and a bit interested in welding. However Im unsure if I actually will do welding.
If you get into welding, wear a mask for your nose and mouth. My first job was working in IT at Cybo Robots. We made welding and cutting systems for assembly lines. We had four or five master welders on staff. They would watch the robots do their thing and tell the programmers what needed to be adjusted. None of them were in good health. They all had lung, eye, and back problems. Get all the safety gear. Then, ATGATT. Wear All The Gear All The Time.
They all said they took the job because it was easy, and they didn't want young people to end up with their health problems.
Its easy, Even if you hate math? (Not basic arithmeritic)
I am an absolute shite welder, but it's mostly muscle memory, and flame control as far as I can tell. That being said, I have only ever welded iron and steel. Never touched copper or anything expensive. And I don't try to weld anything that is critical, so I don't get to do it much
Edit: Oh, I see what your asking. No those guys were saying their job at Cybo was easy, and it was. We paid them $75,000 a year to mostly sit on their asses shooting the shit with each other. They only had to inspect a weld about once or twice a day.