Its time for a new job. Start out by educating yourself on how to have an A+ resume. Local libraries hold classes on how to improve your resume and how to ace interviews. Then start looking to see what jobs are out there. This is a bad time of the year because you will be competing with the college students that just graduated. But you have experience where they only have education. Look in the papers, some cities have job ads only newspapers. Also look online. Craigslist is a good place to start, then there is yahoo jobs, monster.com and I'm sure there is a ton of other websites you will find. Look at the ads everyday to see what is out there and what ppl are paying. Now when you feel ready, have a couple of great interview outfits, and have educated yourself on resume and interviews, start applying to some of these jobs. The online world is so awesome for job hunting, usually you just have to submit your resume and a brief introduction by email. Keep a list of companies that you have applied to. Check your local workforce center and hit up the temp agencies. You need to get out of this other job, its no way to live. The places you are interviewing with do not have to contact your current employer if you don't want them to. You can do this, you just have to get started!

Oh, one more thing... never talk bad about your current employer or co workers on interviews. You can just say you are looking for more of a challenge or ???
The interview classes/resume education will help you with the answer to why you want to leave your current job.
If you need anymore info or help or just want to talk, hit me up. I recently did all of hubbys job hunting/education while he slaved a way at a sh*t job.

So, if you are getting no respect at work, then you must go to the source of the best respect there is. Ready for the big secret?

DRUM< ROLL PLEASE

SELF RESPECT! That's right! Nobody in this world has the primary purpose of respecting you! That is YOUR job.

So, you must look in the mirror every day, and start loving the person you find there. You must. This is not a negotiation. If you do not really respect and care about YOU, it makes no difference if others do or do not respect you. If you are so ill matched for the job you have, you can choose to look for another job. If you hate the place you live, you can find another place to live. Just because you have always done something, is no reason to keep doing it. Y. A. H. O. O. You always have other options. If you have to get one of those things to bite on, you can do that. You can stop clenching your teeth. That is a choice you made, and now it is a bad habit. Guess what? habits can be replaced. BUT yagottawanna.

Maybe all of this is just hot air. I happen not to think so. I don't tell people to try things I have not tried myself.

Just know that we hear you. Many of us have faced, or are facing the kind of things you are talking about. You are not alone.

AND YOU ALWAYS HAVE OTHER OPTIONS.