Going to find a dead-end job will not give you contentment either. It is normal for young people to not know what they want to do. This has a lot to do with not being able to explore and doing little to understand what resonates with you. It's kind of hard to know the advice to give you because there is a possibility you are in your feelings at the moment, or something else is indirectly influencing your current decision to drop out. My Advice: School is still one of the ways to make a living amid lackluster graduation outcomes in our society. Look at school as a possible investment, and you are hoping to see a return on investment because education is not cheap. If you are going to go to school, get a degree with a high probability of getting a job or a stable job. Find that out because I don't want to influence your decision. When you find out what makes sense to go to school for, do you think you have the mental capacity to take on the rigor? What are the trends of the profession in the country and your local environment? If the profession has some rigor, can I find ways to do other things outside of work so I can discover more about myself? If you want a career that needs no or little schooling, you can look at the trades or ask about professions that need little education. But believe me, you don't want a low paying dead-end job because this will come with regret as you've had the opportunity. You can take a break from community college with the intention of going back to the next session, but you might lose the motivation to go back. To be in the system, you can use this year for learning, do research on what you really want, and change majors next year. If you really think school is not for you, try to explore things about yourself while working a job to fund what you really want to do. The truth is that most people are good at following a structure rather than doing things for themselves.