I meant to mention when we were talking about this, but of course I forgot: if you send me your resume, I can ask Josh what he thinks your chances would be of getting/keeping/excelling at a job with a livable wage in and around NYC. Granted, I don't trust him as far as I can throw him, but that's because he has an over-inflated ego about his own qualifications and an under-developed sense of what a "living wage" is, so it still might be a place to start in terms of having some "real life" idea of where you'd be.