<prompt> Human: Hi PF. Throwaway to protect myself.I am currently in a social service internship program in a large, southeastern metro area. The internship started in August 2015 and is supposed to last until mid-July 2016. The internship is sponsored by a Church, and I work in small, up-and-coming nonprofit as a case manager. The Church provides me comfortable housing in a nice neighborhood, and a stipend of 400 a month. My expenses are a 100 a month metro card and groceries. I put 35 into my savings account every month and have about 900 saved up. I also receive support from my family. The nonprofit I am currently working at has been very toxic. I do not want to get into too many details, but my department and the other departments are messes. Two new employees, whom I report too, have been brought into clean things up and there is slow, slow change. They are supportive of me and would like to see me stay when my internship is over. However, I would be making 10 an hour40 hours a week, with no health benefits. Ive recently started applying for jobs in the social services, and I have received several interview offers. It is looking like I am going to get a few offers in the next couple of weeks. If I leave now, I risk losing the support of both the Church and the employees at the nonprofit. I would lose two of my references, whom are my direct supervisors. However, a volunteer at the nonprofit said she would be willing to be a reference for me. But she is not my direct supervisor. The most promising job is salaried at 36k a year. I also have 30k student loans, which are currently deferred until December. I am on my parents health plan also. So, PF, do I risk burning bridges by leaving the slowly-improving-yet-still-toxic nonprofit 3.5 months early, or do I take a new job and leave my toxic current one? Edit: I should clarify that I am applying for jobs in a northeast metro area closer to my family and partner, which would totally remove me from involvement with the nonprofit I am currently with.  <response>: It is not burning bridges to leave an internship after many months that pays that poorly to take a 36kyr job with health insurance. If they take it as a jerk move on your part, then they are the actual jerks.You are in the grown-up world. People should act like adults and understand that you found a better job. It isnt like you have been there for 2 weeks and just screwed them over by forcing them to reopen the application process.Also, people usually dont use their current boss as a reference unless it is really clear to everyone involved that you are getting near your termination date on good terms. Take the real job. Your description of your current job sounds like one step above slavery. To imagine that you would continue after the internship for 10hr is almost criminal outside of fast food restaurants and Walmart. You need to move on or you are going to be poor and taken advantage of for the rest of your life. 