At what point should I sell back my car?

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My hours have been cut to 10 a week. I will be making about $5,280 next year. My car payments, maintenance, misc. fees will be $5,243.20 plus who knows what the price of gas will be? $278.60 per month is just car payments. If I don't get a real jobs soon, it will not pay me to keep this one. My husband can bring me to work with his truck. He won't like it. He works Mon.-Fri. and I work Sat. and Sun. He's like a day to sleep in. I don't blame him. He also likes a day to volunteer. If I sell my car back to the dealer, I probably won't get any money extra, they'll probably just take over payments if my car hasn't depreciated too much. I can't pay my bills as it is and loosing more hours per week was not what I needed. I only have $850 in savings left and that will take me about 1 1/2 months to go through at this rate. That's down from $20 thousand dollars I had to start with 10 years ago. Sounds like a lot, but I've used about $2 thousand a year, on average, from not having enough money to live on. No job has equaled as much as the one I had in 1998. I have down-sized and my husband has gotten rid of as many bills as we both can. Now it's food, shelter, clothing, communication (phone, computer), and transportation is about all we have left and we're trying to find ways to cut back on them. I don't see any way around selling my car. But if I sell it and get a job that I need a car for because the bus doesn't run the right hours to keep more than a 3 or 4 hour job in the city and doesn't go to most country destinations in a way that would work for me, then I may loose out on a job. Wish me luck, I'm going to be on Mylot less and redoubling my efforts to find a job. I have to make $1,500 a month to break even. No car would cut that by $300 a month. Still need $1,200 without a car and I'm only making $440 a month now. So $760 short even then. I have to make at least three resumes, specific to three different kinds of positions tomorrow. Wish me luck.