[kennethtilton]

Reading between the lines, you should be quite nervous about ending up living in a van down by the river (thank you, Chris Farley, rip) and you should forget completely about taking on the financial responsibility of starting a family.

Your plans B and C require surviving at a job for 2-3 and 5 years, but you wisely (good!) placed "clean up my act" in the conditional position of an IF form. Your sneering characterization of teamwork as "B-league office politics" means we are now in the ELSE branch in which you get terminated for cause two more times in the next six months and cannot defend your resume. You are an untouchable.

Tilton's Law: solve the right problem. Your problem is not finding a way to escape a geographical location, your problem is not being able to work with others. You will have that anywhere.

I recommend yoga, Buddhism, qi gong, meditation -- something, anything that will give you a little perspective, calm down your inner Young Turk, let you see yourself as others see you, and grow up.

hth.