re: How to make 100k a year?

A lot of good advice on this forum.
Your expense are way too high for living.
Get rid, sell, lease, get room mate and cut your expenses down.
If you are making 50k working 40 hours a week. It would be easier and more beneficial to start a side hustle you can do for cash, instead of getting raked over the coals in overtime taxes and working longer for them.
If you do that you will get a feel for working for yourself, if you like it, or not, can handle the stress that comes with it.
I would hold onto my job until im a little more fiancially flexible or have another job.

FYI:I got laid off and started a business that failed in the 1st 2 years. I learned a lot with that first lesson.

It is hard out there, trying to break into a field, transitioning into a field or getting a true feel of what you really want to do. In Louisiana it does come down to who you know not what you know, more so than often.

Now most jobs have eliminated on the job training.
And when you apply for a job through indeed, ziprecruiter, monster, your fighting 125-200+ applicants sometimes.
Goodluck, I like to hear Good stories about people making it so Dont give up. Dont feel so down about wasting your life, there are soo many people out there who are just trying to make it.