I was a meth addict and got kicked out the house after geting busted with a felony amount of meth at the age of 17...best thing that ever happened to me really. I avoided prison and went to rehab, then bummed around the country for a couple of years. By the time I was 26 I had paid for my own college education, bought some land, built my own house(with my own hands) and had a farm...just by waiting tables and investing in the stock market.
I then lost all that and wound up financially destroyed by age 37 and was forced to go back to my parents for help and a place to live, but that's another story...and they were very cool about it(indentured servitude and being forced to virtually rebuild my mom's house aside)...