I've been thinking about this for so long I hope someone unbiased can help me because I don't know what seems logical anymore. So first, a little about my situation. I am so grateful that thanks to some awesome advice from other mustachians, I am now debt free!!! I buckled down and paid off my student loans and my car. I am 31, single, no kids. I make $65k and also earn a commission based on my sales. That ranges from $18-$20k a year.
I hate my job. Despise it. I hate everything about it. Long story short I have no other skills so I'm kind of stuck where I am right now. Changing careers may take me years, I'm not so sure it's worth it if I'm honest. So right now I work purely for the money. I've been looking for a job closer to my family for the past year and a half. I've been very picky about any prospects because I want the next job to be somewhere I can see myself for a long time. This on top of trying to find something close to my family has been hard to come by.
The other issue is where I live. I currently live in an apartment and due to some new residents and new management being very lax on who they take in I no longer feel safe where I am. Several incidents have happened in the past year including a shooting and I see a lot of regular activity I do not feel comfortable with. Management doesn't seem to care...
I'm also spending thousands to fly home to see my family every year, I'm not sleeping well due to feeling unsafe where I live, and the stress and nonsense of my job is making me depressed. It doesn't make much sense for me to be here anymore just for this job. So the options I see are:
1. Quit my job now, move in with my parents, and frantically search for another job. This will require moving expenses to another state, breaking my lease which will cost close to $1000, and of course, losing my biweekly paychecks from my job (living off of my parents). Don't know what I'd do with my furniture-either storage or sell it. This option would free me from feeling threatened by my surroundings and the stress of my job, definitely resolve the family closeness problem, lol.
2. Quit as soon as I find any other job at all, basically take the first opening I can find and not be choosy about it.
3. Stay where I am and continue searching for the right job. May need to break my lease eventually anyways. Move to another apartment in the same town which has been deemed safer than where I am now, pay moving expenses and possibly move twice if I do find a job out of state worth moving for.
What should I do? If anyone has some insight I'd really appreciate it.