Can you please help out a beginner. Any advice appreciated!

[Atomsk]

First off thank you for the advice. I appreciate it all. I apologize if this post is asked everyday or if i posted on the wrong place. I'm on mobile and it makes it very difficult to search and scour every single page and what not. Now a little on me and my goals for the future.

I'm 24 years old (in about a week) and I live in NYC. I have a HS diploma, but graduated with an I.E.P diploma which limits me. I can't enroll into certain colleges. I'm working on getting my GED which makes it easier to enroll into other colleges. I don't know the first thing about college. I don't even know how to enroll in one. After graduating all I did was work part time jobs to help support my family. We had very little and I couldn't afford to go to college. All my time was focused on helping my mom keep a roof over our heads. Now that my family is more or less stable I'd love to get a bachelor's degree. Why you ask? Well I want to teach English abroad in Japan. I want to move, experience new things, travel and only have to be responsible for myself. I want to start a new life. What are the requirements to teach abroad in japan? Be a native English speaker and have a bachelor's degree. Those are also the requirements to get a working visa to go to Japan. I know about TELF and I plan on taking that too so securing a job in Japan will be easier. I want the easiest way and most cheapest way to get any bachelor's degree. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it's cheap and fast. I'd also like help in figuring out how to enroll into college and getting started on my journey after my GED. After looking up information I figured I'd like to go to TESC since it's the cheapest. I don't know much about testing out except take some test for credit and get a degree. I would love it if someone could please help me out in understanding what steps need to be done to complete my longer term goal.

Thank you in advance.