Look at it this way. With drive time you are working 11 hour days and getting paid for 8. Add to that the worry factor that keeps you up at night and it seems like more time than that is JOB.
Since you don’t seem to care about advancement at this point for whatever reasons, would another local job with the potential for overtime, more hours or the like be any worse? Couple that with the added gasoline, upkeep, work lunches and morning/evening quick stops for food, etc. and those are all deductions from that income. There is also the other potential added cost of takeout meals, sitters, daycare or whatever that are add-ons to that job.
My first qualifier would be “do I really like doing this job?” or is it the money. If you don’t like it now, you won’t ever like it and you’ll eventually end up dreading that ride in the morning and praying for the drive home.
That happened to me. I even got to the point where I started taking the long way to work in the morning. I lasted 6 months at that job. Best thing I ever did was quit, even though it was a very well paying job.
For every job I ever held, I figured the marginal savings rate. In other words, I want to know how much I can bank at the end of each month after taking care of all obligations (insurance, student loans etc.) living costs (housing, food, transportation clothing, for myself and for my family), what I want to pay myself for incidentals, entertainment (sanity pay), etc.
What’s left over that I can SAVE. THAT’s what I am earning. If that number is really small or even negative, you need to keep looking for another job. But don’t quit the one you have until you have a new one.
That’s the first law of ropes. Don’t let go of rope A until you have a firm grip on rope B.