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Almost certainly not, although there’s a slim chance it could be done.First: It depends on where you live. In my town in my state (Conway, Arkansas), you could probably get a studio or small 1BR apartment for $400/month or a little more. In San Francisco or Seattle or New York City, you might not be able to find a studio for $1500/month. Your best option would be to rent a room in a house with a bunch of roommates, and even that will be a big chunk o’change. So you’d need to be in an area with relatively low cost of living.The laws concerning child labor vary from state to state, so you’d need to look into the laws of where you live. I checked my own state’s laws, and basically. . . if you’re under 16, you can’t work in certain environments. You can’t work around hazardous chemicals, you can’t operate heavy machinery, you can’t work in dust hazards. . . . the full list of regs is here: Child Labor - Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing. But the short answer is that you can’t work in mines, factories, or construction; you can’t cut trees or work in lumbermills, you can’t work in slaughtering and meatpacking, and there are many agricultural jobs you can’t do. You also can’t work where alcohol is served, which locks you out of most restaurants. Actually, you also can’t work in cooking or baking, which locks you out of restaurant kitchens completely. Even working as a janitor or dry cleaner might not be open to you, since commercial services may use harsher chemicals than the ones you’d use just for your own home.So you can’t legally work in most of the unskilled jobs that are out there, or even in skilled ones like the building trades. There are skilled jobs where you could be hired, but here’s the thing: your employer must get a work permit from the state Department of Labor. Most employers don’t want to fill out more paperwork than they have to. If they already have plenty of 16+ individuals they can hire, they’re not going to hire you.There’s also the fact that if you’re 14, you probably haven’t had time to acquire many skills or much work experience. I’ll give you an example: The secretaries in the office where I work would have done a lot of typing and dictation. . . 40 years ago. Now, we all type our own documents, thanks to word processing and PDF forms and all that. But our secretaries stay very busy—mostly wrangling with databases and procurement software. (And they don’t get paid enough for what they have to do.) You’d need experience to do their job—experience that few 14-year-olds have.If you’re 14 and you have skills and experience that people are willing to pay for, then that’s great. If you’re a whiz-kid computer programmer who’s already developed a popular game. . . or if you have experience modeling clothes, or singing and dancing on Disney Channel-type shows. . . maybe. But typical 14-year-olds just haven’t had time to learn marketable skills that would give employers a reason to pick them over older candidates.Then even if somehow you *did* get a job, there are legal restrictions on how many hours you can work, because your top priority is supposed to be schooling. You have to be in school (about 8 AM to 3 PM), and the law says you can’t work before 6 AM or after 7 PM (or after 9 PM on Fridays and Saturdays). It’s almost impossible to work a full-time job under those conditions.I could go on. US cities and towns usually don’t have great public transit—my own town has none—and they tend to spread out, meaning that your home, workplace, stores, etc. may not be close togeher. So unless you were lucky enough to live within walking or biking distance of your workplace, you’d need a car, and you can’t legally drive at 14. I’m not sure if you can legally sign an apartment lease at the age of 14—maybe with your parents co-signing, but I’m not sure about that.I can’t absolutely say it’s impossible, but it’s extremely unlikely that you could support yourself at the age of 14 while following the laws.