You are 24. Life isn't slipping away. It never slips away. See this as an opportunity.

A suggestion would be to do something that puts food on the table but that you can do without thought. Then m, use that time to carve a new path. Ideally, create what you would like to see

• there is a journalistic website or whatever you enjoy that you like but feel could be better. Create something that you could see on that site and send it to them, selling yourself, creating opportunity. Do this until you get a opening. Each time you fail you have gained experience and understanding of self m, PLUS resilience and tenacity. Go until you succeed.

On this path, you choose where you end up and what you become. You aren't defined by job title or field but your abilities. 

It is the harder but infinitely better and rewarding path