[danlux]

You still have plenty of options. Like someone else asked, why did you drop out of school? If you don't have much left, take out a loan, go and finish, and get any kind of job with benefits and decent pay. You can still play poker for side income.

There's also nothing wrong with finding whatever work you can for the time being. You'll feel better about yourself for actually being productive.

I find it funny how so many people in our generation think they control everything that happens in our lives. Most of the important things that happen to you in life are things you have no control over. The measure of a man is how he responds to the events he has no choice over.

I suspect deep down you know what to do. Like someone else said, there is no reason having a child means you can't be succesful. It could have the exact opposite affect of what you think, it will give you something that you will want to provide for and take care of in the best possible way.