Talk to me on PM.You may not feel passion for engineering because you're addicted to the vice that is gambling and acquiring. When you're addicted to something, its very tough to have interest or passion in other things. You rarely hear about alcoholics having many real hobbies.
Im not saying you have to be an engineer, but it gets scary when you type things like the above; you're relating other people's work and jobs versus your addiction and hobby.
From the cancelled auction to the possibly leaving home to the admitted addiction, you have got a lot on your plate and I want you to take it seriously. This isnt a pitch for an engineering career, this is just a pitch to take this seriously.
I think it has to do with more than gambling. Something is not right. Back in high school, I was sober and didn't gamble, my hobbies diminished when schoolwork got hard. Yeah, I made myself addicted to schoolwork of my own will, I had a lot of pressure from my family and strong peer pressure made me to someone I didn't want to be. I lived in a wealthy and educated neighborhood with high competition. Culturally, this is normal from my family's origin. Basically, I pushed myself to be someone I didn't want to be, then failed with addiction. Now I am trying to fix the derailing.
I went to a school that's super competitive on my own will, without really thinking it was a good fit for me. It was not and lost more interest in schoolwork (and Engineering). I tried so hard that I only studied and got 3.5/4.0 but nothing else. Until I'm 23, I didn't know how to listen to myself on genuine interests. I did what I'd be good at, not what I liked. That's the biggest mistake I found, family and friends never told me so glad I asked for help here.
That's when I started to get depressed and lost interest in lots of things, then there comes gambling.
That's why I quit harvesting. I had a very bad sign, so I stopped on my own on Convention Day 1.
Since I was very little, I always felt job and major are obligations (to pay bills/support family etc), which should be treated seriously. I treated seriously and always on-time, but the rest were not so pretty. Someone here told me I have an undiscovered mental health problem I developed over the years of not listening to myself, so it's going in the right direction. It has to do with addiction (as well as only being focusing on 1 thing) it wasn't discovered.