Besides stating our outright opinions, there's no actual sustenance to what's being said.
Yes, credit scores are used in your potential employment, I'm positive yours is relatively terrible right now. Similarly, bankruptcy also comes with similar challenges for your road ahead. In my position, I see it as a 50/50, either way.
Indeed you're going to have your challenges finding work. What's worse, knowing there's many jobs out there that can reach 6 figures and put you on a good path is probably the envy of quite a few people here. The difference being, you need to cultivate and appease the personal touch. If you have friends from school, past employers or someone who can look past the ticks on a resume (or hiring process proper, in this case, that credit score) and recognize you as a person with talents beyond that, you may have traction. Being a person, in this process, not a resume, makes a big difference. With that in mind, if you can work hard enough to make the 6 figure move, I can foresee a few years of pain, with a clean act and probably a good place in 5 or so years. It depends; although I personally fear your lack of commitment. Considering you're not using Google Docs as mentioned or Open Office to cover an $8 monthly bill shows you may still have the wrong attitude.
If you want to step forward into positively cleaning things up, it may mean selling that camping equipment, finding a cheaper option for your phone and internet, picking up a second (actual) part time job on top of the 6 figure job you'd very actively pursue (or good overtime would be more likely). Put in two hard years, maybe 3. Make minimum payments, pay your debts down in order of highest interest first, understand how to recover your credit (including keeping accounts open, but paid off, having more available credit but not utilizing it, among the other facets of what the score is looking for, including actually checking and correcting errors on it).
However, if you're not willing to put in for the hard work to clean life up, for at least the short period, lets look at option two.
Declare. However this, as mentioned, gives you somewhere around 7 years, it means low income, budgeting and audits, and a clean slate. It may not work as a magic eraser, as it appears, however. Simply a company asking if you've "ever" declared bankruptcy, can make a difference yet again, or the fact that legal proceedings can take much more like 10 years, depending on how fast you're set up (forgive me, I'm taking a CRA angle, not IRS, but I'm sure IRS is similar. It's a long dubious process of hand holding on their part)
With that in mind, I know people who are closer to 1M in debt, who still could be years away from declaring, although they will in time.
A final note. If you do decide to put in the hard work to do the cleaning of slate yourself, which I believe you should, consider debt consolidation, of some form. Certainly paying one bill at a fixed rate could potentially be easier. It may not be cheaper in the short term, but with good income could become irrelevant. Finally, I would highly encourage paying minimum payments, it certainly would start the credit score ball rolling. As opposed to paying everything on the nose at up to 20%, I negotiated with the banks to roll things over to a 6% line of credit, that I filled up. Of course they were happy just to see their money; however floored when I paid it off so quickly. Where they were positive they would see indefinite interest only payments for some years, I cleaned up quickly. My social life suffered some and my time was carefully spent the past three years, albeit it was worth it, to clean my head and my slate.