I am green as green can be, I’ve done some reading and research and am still lost.

[Gage Perkins]

Hey there everyone, hope you all had a good week. I work in building trades, actually started working in building trades due to wanting to get into real estate. Previously I worked as an LNA (most the country knows it as a CNA). I live in Vermont and from what it looks like looking around a bit on here there doesn't appear to be many people from here on this forum. Even harder, the two cities listed are an hour and an hour and a half from me. I work with a couple of guys who have a rental or two but both of them had the properties fall into their laps. Not really sure where to go to get started as it's such a small state and not a whole lot there. I don't work on site anywhere so I wouldn't be able to meet general contractors, I work in a warehouse building houses. My goal is to do house hacking with FHA loans as that's about the only way I would be able to do it. I don't have a lot of funds, I pay a lot in child support, feeling kind of lost on what direction to go. Currently trying to clear up some debt I have to help boost my credit up but ultimately by the end of the year would like to at least be in the process of doing my first deal. I'm in my mid 30s and feeling like I'm behind the curve. I would like to eventually have rental properties to have passive income to be able to start a business of my own as I've always wanted to own my own business. I would also like to do some flips and brrrrr. I am kind of unsure where to start and feeling overwhelmed being out of my element. I started listening to the bigger pockets podcast from the beginning again this week while working as I figured learning while working would be beneficial and would be a better use of my time. I've read rich dad, poor dad, think and grow rich as well as some other Napoleon Hill work. Done research and looked deeper into real estate with google searches there is so much info out there it's hard to tell what is real and what is just garbage. Any insight into what I can do to start networking while in a very small area and working full time?