Now what do I do? I'm a single broke male in my mid-twenties working two dead end jobs.  Story inside.

First off, there is always a way to save money. Dont buy expensive brands, always turn the lights/water off when you leave a room. You also need to cut out the bills (if you can) that are not vital to your survival right now. Tv can be replaced by exercise and books. A phone bill can be reduced by switching to a cheeper/data plan. Also, SAVE UP YOUR CHANGE IN A JAR. This is a long process, but if you dump extra change (under a certain amount) into a jar and collect if for a whole year, you will seriously be surprised. I once saved up $500 in loose change by dropping everything less then $2 in my piggy bank. View saving money as a bill with a 100% reimbursement rate! $20 every couple weeks is still $20 towards moving out west. Also - keep track of your spending on paper so you can physically see where all of your money is going. This can help you make cuts in the proper places (if you can afford it). Its a lot less easy to spend money when there is a goal to achieve. Set an amount (like paying off a credit card) to save then budget it into everything else. If your not making enough money now, look for another job! Start applying in the west coast. If an employer of a company likes you enough, they will PAY FOR YOU TO MOVE! Then ker-blam! Problem solved! Things change, but change takes time. Dont give up! Set attainable goals for yourself that will help you achieve the bigger goal in the end. You will feel accomplished and re-vamped about life!!

Here it goes. First Tessa seems good intention-ed but please do yourself a favor and ignore everything she said. I like Adam's answer. First: You are young, and one of the things you will learn as time will go by is that "NOTHING IS AS BAD AS IT SEEMS OR WE MAKE IT TO BE"  Also keep in mind that the opposite is true as well. Nothing is as great as we think it is. Our mind through 2 million years of evolution has learned the trick of overcompansating. There were more than once when I thought my life was over and looking back it was never as bad as it seemed. Second: Take care of your body. Eat as healthy as possible, get enough sleep (this is extremely important) and exercise. Exercise can mean a run, or just a walk. If pushups are your thing. do that. I have never been great mentally if i felt rotten physically. Third: Money is not made in a vacuum. It is made through other people. How does that happen? Don't look for charity from people. The only place you ask for charity is at the food bank if you are hungry. Don't tell people your problems. Trust me, nobody wants to hear and most likely nobody cares. The only way people will help you achieve your dream, is by helping them achieve theirs. Start making relationships, help everybody you can, don't tell people your problems. Every single penny I've made it has been because I have helped somebody achieve their dream. Please this is the most important lesson you can learn. I am mediocre at almost everything, I'm not particularly great at anything. I do however treat people nicely, never talk bad about anybody, try to help when I can and work as hell. This has paid handsomely even though I do lack in the skills section. Forth Choose your battles and manage risk. Don't get into something if the risk is high. Whatever you do make sure there is something for both sides, if a deal looks loopsided where it seems that it helps you way more than the other party, its a sucker deal, and you are the sucker. Choose deals with very limited or no downside but great upside. Its better to manage your risk and the downside and the upside will take care of itself. Example: Somebody tells you, hey A, I have a great deal. My buddy knows somebody who can get us these watches for 10 bucks and we can sell them for 200. We can make a crapload of money very quick. This is a sucker deal. Either the watches are stolen, and the downside is that you risk jail, or the watches are fake and he wants you to front the money. Whatever deal you get in, watch your money and guard it closely. Preservation of capital is the most important thing. Meanwhile do things for people without expecting anything in return. It will come back to you 100 fold, I promise. Good luck. We all at some point have been where you are at at a point in our life so we know how you feel. Also we wished somebody would have given us some direction. At the end of the day, we all need to create our own experiences. It's those stressors that improve our learning and solidify our skills.

Well... It seems to me that taking steps to move to a part of the country that you want to move to should be your #1 goal here. You live in an apartment, and it seems like you have no ties to anyone where you live-so moving should be relatively uncomplicated-you don't have a house to sell, in other words. Your difficulty with a relationship could be because you work too much, and are stressed out/unhappy-nobody wants to date or marry a depressing person who gives off a "I give up" vibe. So, you need to fix your life first. You don't say what it is you do-you do mention a white collar job. Many white collar jobs are willing to pay moving expenses for people they hire, so you might be able to move on the company dime. Here's what I'd do: Start getting on job boards and submitting resumes. Yes, I know, you are busy. But if you want to change your life, you are going to have to plan, and make the time to make it happen. It isn't going to drop into your lap. So take some time in the evening, or on your lunch break, and start doing some job research. Look at ways you can try to save SOMETHING. Maybe living without a landline if you have a cell phone, or cutting the cable bill to basic cable if you have premium channels, eating at home more. Look for ways to consolidate your debt so that you have one lower monthly payment. If you have good credit and you are a good customer with your banker or credit union, loan consolidation could really help. It will put some money in your savings so that you'll have something to build on.  Or, pay your bills in the following way, if loan consolidation isn't the answer: Take the lowest bill first, and pay that off, while paying the minimum payment on the other bills. Then add that amount to the next lowest bill to pay that off and when that is paid, add that amount to the next bill,  and so on until you pay it down. You have a bad case of inertia, and you feel that there is no way out. But there is. You have to be willing though, to make the time and energy to put it in motion, otherwise, you WILL end up in that same job for 50 years.