With or without the legal right to work in the US jobs for unskilled people are scarce. You can thank illegal migration for that. You may be a responsible young person but you're competing with millions of others seeking illegal work who have years of experience.
For every teenage girl hoping to babysit there's an abuela who can say she's raised 12 children and 19 grandchildren. She's going to get the job over you. Try to find something you can do online.
Selling homemade crafts at Esty.com is a good idea.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.