I HATE MY JOB - but it pays so well (Im 25 and make a salary most adults twice

[samantha24]

my senior will never earn)? But I hate it and It's really making me unhappy but at the same time Im scared to walk away from the money, I remember being really poor as a teenager (moved away very young) and am scared of the prospect of possibly having to go back to a lifestyle like that if I leave. Any advice? I have quit before but for instance this time I got a new laptop and $500 as an incentive to stay but it's constant I always say Im going to quit today they give me something I take it but the promise to make it better is never kept, how do I get the balls to walk away? Or am I crazy for walking away? Whats better being poor with the possibilty of happiness or rich and misserable??? Please help me with some advice Im really a lost soul I dont know what to do (also another reason im scared about the $$ thing is I do help alot of people to so I also feel obligated Im not technically as it's charity to random strangers really (hardly know them personally) but still if you know what I mean.
Also if I leave my brother in law will likely get replaced as he is a good worker but his salary is way more than the company would normally pay and the boss did it cause of me and the fact he was using it to support my sister and their new baby (although he's a tot now)
BTW Im not related to the owner or anything just my brother in law

[Leonidas]

So just lear to suck a** and you'll make more and maybe even become the boss

[NaeRae86]

I guess you have a choice to make... its your life, you only live once.. so that leaves rich and miserable or poor and happy right?. I just feel that if your tottaly unhappy and its effecting your life is it really worth it?. I know how you feel, as I also had a job like that, i would keep telling myself that i should stick it out cuz i need the money but i dreaded the job so much i was driving myself crazy and not to mention everyone else around me... my boyfriend, family etc. eventually I had a burnout and had to take like a week off to recover. during that time I cleared my mind of what I really wanted in life....and if i could picture myself there in 5 years... the thought repulsed me so I knew that it was either now or never to quit and change my life... id be stuck there for another 5 years hating my life and misserable. I now work for a not so good paying job but im so happy, and it shows... I just got promoted! its so much better when you love what your doing... honestly. you have to do whats right for YOU not for others. hope that helps, good luck