Torn in between the two, and I really want to be with who?

So this weekend, I've been into deep thought. Analyzing my situation, and I've come to realize that I have to sacrifice one of two things: My career or my trip to Japan in May. I've been looking at the situation and by the way its going, it really looks like that I'm about to sacrifice my Japan trip.

See here's how the situation goes, as you guys already know, I've been trying to job hunt but its a bitch to find a job right now. So I narrowed it down to a couple options.

1. Keep working at my job til I find a better job and still go to Japan
2. Say Fuck it and quit my job, pack my stuff and go to LA and try to find a job there, using the money that i saved for Japan and give up my trip
3. Keep working at my job til next May go to Japan and then find my career job after that.

Being a person who has lived in San Diego his whole life, I really want to live in another city just to see where I really came from. I believe if I stay here, it's like I'm staying in a bubble. Sometimes you gotta get out of the bubble, to see how good you really had it.

Now I'm the type of person where if I have a goal, I'm going to achieve it. And I'm a man of my word. And this goal for japan spawned this year. And I've been determined to save just to go to that trip. One of my dreams right now is take a take a picture in japan with the sakura flowers falling down. I also want to travel at a young age, I dunno if I'd be down to go to the clubs when I'm around 28 or so, I'd just feel old. So I really want to take this trip while I'm still young. But I really got to think about the future and a career is very important.

I've been talking to my homies and I've got a lot of input and they have good points for each. Like a good homie said "you gotta secure yourself before you can go on vacation, if you go to Japan w/o a new job your just taking a gamble. Granted, you don't know what Japan will be like in a couple years." And I've had countless homie tell me that I'm a smart kid, and from experience, they really recommend that I move out of San Diego.

And I ain't gonna lie, in my point of view the job market in San Diego SUCKS!

The way things are going now. It's getting to the end of the year, so companies are thinking about their budget and its going to get extra hard to find a position. My roommates want to extend the lease here at the place I'm staying at til December. My roommate was telling me that I should start fresh in 2008. But my impatient ass wants a change now. Also, if I move back to my parents place, then I would have to pay rent. So either way, there's no escape to paying rent. So the most logical thing to do right now is to keep on working till I find a job and chill at this pad till December.

Bottom line, I want a new job and I don't want to sacrifice Japan.

Its looks like I do have to sacrifice Japan, but I don't want to accept that fact.

Does anybody have any suggestions?