So like… what’s even viable right now

For context I’m a 25 year old trans girl stuck in a dead end retail job that’s physically destroying my body and causing various health issues and I need to break out of this before it kills me.

I’ve been contemplating going back to university again but every time I try to I’m just stumped on what to do. I’ve already completed a bachelors of visual arts & design which was probably the biggest mistake of my life with how useless the course ended up being, and if I’m going to do this again I can’t just waste my time and money. Issue is every single field I look into just seems to complete gloom and hopelessness.

I contemplated doing computer science as it seems like something I could genuinely enjoy and isn’t a physical job, but apparently that markets completely dead and I’d be only shooting myself in the foot. Media seems like a no go considering my friends who’ve specialised it and haven’t been able to get work in over a year. Education I hated when I tried it and the wages aren’t great either. Nursing and medicine exist but I feel like the expectations that come with those roles will end up leaving me worse off than the position I’m currently in. I can’t even jump to a different kind of retail position as stores only want to hire minors these days… genuinely what can you even do??? Even having job alerts turned on all I ever get is the same position at Harvey Norman posted over and over and over again that’s so clearly a false listing 😭

Every time I try to figure this out people just recommend the trades, things like plumbing and construction, but I can’t physically do that, so what career paths are at least somewhat half viable these days which don’t involve physical manual labor 🥲