When you are working, prioritize thus in the workplace:

1. You: Your wellbeing is more important than any part of your job. (of course, part of your well-being is making money, which is a result of doing your job).
2. The people around you: the public and your coworkers. These are the people you're around a lot. Cultivate good relationships
3. Your employer: This is a business relationship. They pay you to do a thing that it's in their interest for you to do. If it's not in your interest to stay with them, you can leave. If it's not in their interest to have you work for them, they can fire you. This isn't a negative--it's a two way street.

Make sure you learn how to do basic household skills, including those traditionally assigned to different genders. Good things to know how to do:

• cook at least basic food
• clean a toilet
• change miscellaneous household filters (<--I didn't know how many things in my house have filters that need to be changed or cleaned!)
• paint a wall/fence if you have an opportunity to (it's such a pain in the ass to prep a surface for painting.)
• do laundry(!very important!)
• hang things on the wall (like, with nails/wall anchors, levels to make them straight, measuring).
• Change a tire and a car headlight

And more importantly, be willing to learn things throughout your life. I called my mom the first month of college to walk me through doing laundry. I taught my roommate to clean a toilet. I changed a tire for the first time last month. Don't assume you can't do a thing just because you've never learned to do it! There's never any shame in not knowing how to do something, only in not being willing to learn.

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Also: Don't be afraid of talking to people and making phone calls. Even today, sometimes nothing is so effective for sorting out an issue with an insurance company, credit card company, etc, as just making the dang call. Perhaps all the more so because phone calls are less used--if you are calling, they know you mean business! (Always be polite to the people who answer the phone. I've been that person, and I remember fondly the people who I could tell were furious but were also clear that they knew I was not responsible for their problem.

I'm a different person, but basically:

People mature and change a lot in the teens. A 14 year old is at a different maturity level (physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially, generally) than you are, and no matter how mature you are for your age, an 18 year old is at a different maturity level/life stage (again, physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially), than you. That means that inherently there's a bit of a mismatch (at best), and a significant power differential (worse) that can make the relationship unbalanced, unhealthy, or even exploitative.

As you get older, a few years will have less weight--an 18 year old and a 20 year old are in a much more comparable life/maturity stage than an 18 year old and a 16 year old.

OP (if you're in the US where credit scores are a thing), find out if your bank will give you a secured credit card. This is when you give your bank, say, $200, and your bank gives you a credit card with a $200 dollar limit; they hold that money in case you don't pay your credit card bill (and whenever you close the credit card, you get that money back). This is a good way to start to build credit (which is very helpful for getting housing on your own) without risking serious debt. Use the card occasionally, and make sure to pay it back immediately. Put it on autopay, if you have enough money regularly in you bank account.