A thirty-two-year-old living with his parents is nothing to be proud of, but I made myself worthwhile around the house.
I took care of all the maintenance myself.
I remember a time when I was in a dark place mentally. I barely left the basement for almost three months, but with the help of my parents and a friend, I crawled out of it. I started with a/c care and improved air quality to keep me busy. I had come up with a quality air conditioner care for my parents and our neighbor, who occasionally let me work on his HVAC installation for a small fee. I checked the ac filter and found it needed replacement because it was filthy. When I moved back home, I used some of my time to learn more about air conditioning, and I found it easy to understand things such as HVAC maintenance. I used this knowledge to work on my parents’ quality HVAC equipment. At some point, I had to call an air conditioning technician for ductwork cleaning because I did not have the tools. The air conditioning provider was impressed by the air conditioning repair I had done and asked if I had ever worked at an air conditioning company. I told him I had never worked for one and had gathered the knowledge online because I had a lot of time. The best thing that came out of it was that the a/c serviceman offered me a slot as an apprentice, which would be at most two months since I had the eye for it, and then after, they would offer me a job. My first official job after that was installing a smart thermostat for a multi-split air conditioning system. I was officially working in the cooling industry, and my mental health improved.