Step 1: Get over flunking out of the university. One can learn important things there, but it ain't the be-all and end-all of life. A degree is a tool. Some people need one, others don't. A lot of successful people don't have or need one. They hire people who have them. Besides, this obsessing over it is probably projecting you as a general downer, which might be part of your girl problem.

Step 2: Figure out what you DO want to do with your life, and start taking steps to getting there. List your assets (wheelbarrow, Holocaust Cloak, etc.) and more importantly, figure out what kind of work gets you interested and excited. If you love doing something enough, there is ALWAYS some way to at least make a decent living at it.

If you can give us something specific in this area, people on this board may be able to give you some specific advice. And hey, if you weren't looking for advice, why would you bring the subject up in the first place?

Assets that I know you already have from just this post: you are young, and unattached. No baggage, and a lot of flexibility. If you needed to move to a different city to pursue an opportunity, you could. And you can survive on very little cash while getting where you wanted to go. Not much fun, but at least feasible. This is the point in your life when you can lay the groundwork for the rest. If you were a painter, you would be painting like crazy, missing meals, and shopping galleries. If you were an author, you would be collecting your initial baskets of rejection slips and learning from your mistakes. This is as close to "free time" as you're going to get, job or no job.

Hell, I can still remember a time in college when I could carry everything I owned tied to a bike. I'm a family man now, with a mortgage, and quite happy about it, but of necessity I'm about as flexible, mobile and spontaneous as a barnacle.