Keep the crappy job---until you deal with these: pay off your debts, analyze whether you are getting full enjoyment off the giant expenses (get rid of them might be an option), and job hunt like crazy. CRAZY! Don't be naughty at work, most career fields are like a small town, you will definitely run into people you hurt again. (I cannot believe how people can be so sweetly vicious or fire people in horrid ways and positive they'll never run into their victims again. ) I've seen friends keep crappy jobs and keep digging their debt-hole deeper and deeper, so they are nuthin-but a prison-beetch to some monster at work. One friend keeps buying more and more knick-knack crap for her house, new car, new house, clothes, working 60-70 hour weeks, getting really badly outa shape, getting screamed at by the foreign boss, with the offshore group members panting for her job. Freeze your credit cards in a block of ice. Start making your lunch, and calling headhunters to do lunch with. While you are killing time at the crappy job, see if you can schmooze over to a decent team and build up some positive references, or a better job.