Until you solidify your finances so that you can offer your kids a future which doesn't hold the threat of homelessness and the certainty of slavery.

Best predictor for future wealth (and accompanying success) is prior wealth. Valid in US and all around the world. If you don't have enough of that by family status, you need to build it yourself and you can only do that by buying yourself time (savings orders of magnitude higher than cost of living). With enough leeway you can either try start your own business and have enough buffer to recover if necessary and still land better than married guy with home staying wife and 4 kids in LA. Also you got much better chances of a career in classic corporation setup since you are in a position to demand be assigned to good projects or walk away. Good projects = !bad projects where bad projects (95-98% of available work) == responsibility without authority, usually cleaning up other people's shit. Usually the young, family-less who can afford to demand authority without responsibility positions then walk away when (their own) shit starts to stink.