A coupe ideas for jobs: 1. Work for a gardener/landscaper. I did this for a summer after I had dropped out of college. I worked for the landscaper that took ca

A coupe ideas for jobs: 1. Work for a gardener/landscaper. I did this for a summer after I had dropped out of college. I worked for the landscaper that took care of my parents house. He was always complaining how hard it was to find good employees and sure enough the only other guy he hired while I was there didn't last more than a month. Fast forward 30 years to today and the landscaper that works on the houses where I live still complains about how hard it is to find good employees. 2. Cannery or commercial fishing work in Alaska. I did this several summers during college (this was back when programming internships, or really any internships, were not as common today). You can work long, hard, hours in peak season but, since you won't be doing anything else, during a good season you can earn a fair amount of cash just by the sheer number of overtime hours worked. If the season is bad then you might not get much work and that is a risk. Besides that, you will certainly meet some interesting people and Alaska is quite beautiful. You have many avenues these days where you can learn and prove your skills in a variety of fields, not just programming but ever more so if you go that route, but you do have to follow through. When I was your age college was about the only option and I was overall a C student, graduated with a second BS at age 28, but still managed to find jobs and do fairly well.