How do I get people to take me seriously?

I've written a couple of novels and I want to be a writer in general. I've been working on this for years to get somewhere. I'm 23, and I've been writing since I was a kid. I've been working on this for years. I just want to be a writer, I've been working on this since I was 8.<br><br>I've had a couple of beta readers, but they haven't really been able to help me - they wanted to be friends, not beta readers. I don't even have a job anymore. I'm 23 years old with no career or education. I'm just so confused all the time. I feel like I don't even know what to say anymore to people. I don't even know what to say to myself. I'm just in the dark. Why does it feel like no one cares?<br><br>I just feel like my future is just blank. I'm the kind of person who likes to think ahead, I like to think about the future. I like to think about what I can do to make things better. But I can't see anything anymore. <br><br>I just want to be a writer. All I want to do is just be a writer. I've wanted to be a writer since I was a kid. I just don't seem to be able to get anywhere, and I don't know how to get anywhere. I just feel so lost. I feel like I'm floating somewhere in space, I don't know where anything is or where I'm going. I'm just lost. <br><br>I don't even know how to end this - I don't even know what to say anymore. I just feel like I'm hitting a blank wall everywhere I go and nobody seems to be paying attention to me. It feels like I'm this invisible wallflower who just gets ignored and I don't know what to do. <br><br>Please can someone post something? Please? I'm not a scammer. <br><br>Tldr; I feel like I'm not being taken seriously as a writer, I don't know what to do.