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IS IT TIME TO LEAVE YOUR JOB?If you see these warning signs, maybe it’s time to quit空中英语教室-2011-11-01 [Low]关键词：Resign, depressed, salary, circumstanceHi, everybody. Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide. Thanks for joining us. My name is Steve. Is it time to leave your job? Well, that’s the question we’re asking in this month’s CAREERS feature. Now the thought of quitting your job may panic you. After all, your job gives you and your family financial security, you’ve become really goo d at doing that job, and you might even have developed some good relationships with your co-workers. So yes, you might be in a safe and comfortable place right now. But don’t ever ignore the warning signs to leave a job or you will put yourself in distress. Let’s open to page 12 now and learn exactly what some of these warning signs are.Is It Time to Leave Your Job?If you see these warning signs, maybe it’s time to quit. In a bad economy, it might seem strange to consider quitting your job. However, sometimes resigning is the best way for you to move forward. Here are some signs that may point you toward the exit door:1. Your work environment is not healthy. Stress is part of any job. But sometimes the frustrations of your job can begin to harm you. They can make you sick or depressed. If you hate going to work, it’s time to leave.Hey, everyone. We are so glad you can join us today. My name is Ryan. And my name is Kaylah. Today we are talking about CAREERS. Our article is called: Is It Time to Leave Your Job? Now Ryan, often we talk about getting jobs, so it’s a little odd to talk about leaving a job.Exactly, yeah. We often look at how you can find your new career, but now we’re going to look at whether or not you should leave your current job. So this month we are going to talk about things that you should use to decide if you should leave your job. If you see these warning signs, maybe it’s time to quit.Now”warning signs” usually refer to something that gives you a warning, which makes sense. But they are not going to be actual signs like on the street, maybe traffic signs. There will not be signs like this in your life. So we’re going to look at things that you can take as warning signs, something that you can be looking for in your career and in your life to maybe change your career.Yeah, and these warning signs will often present themselves, or usually pretty easy to see. And we’re going to tell you what some of them are so you can look at your job situation and decide for yourself whether or not you should stay. Well, in a bad economy, it might seem strange to consider quitting your job. And that’s true, Kaylah, right now there is a bad economy.That’s right. The economy refers to the money that is being made and the way the exchange of money between companies and people. So it does seem weird when the economy is not good,when there is not a lot of money, when things are expensive to quit your job because that is how you provide for your family, provide for yourself. So it is odd, it does seem bizarre, a little strange to consider quitting your job. However, sometimes resigning is the best way for you to move forward. Exactly, and so “resigning” means that you quit your job. Usually when you resign, you tell your boss that you are leaving. So you have decided you don’t want to work there anymore, and you tell your boss, “I am resigning. I’m quitting this job.” And that’s a great way to move forward.That’s right. You’re giving up the position. You are not being told to leave. You make that decision for yourself. Now sometimes this is the best way to move forward. If you’re in a bad job and a bad situation, you cannot create a better situation until you move on. Well, here are some signs that may point you toward the exit door. And that just means towards a way of getting out or telling you you should get out of a bad job.That’s right. We’re going to show you some of those warning signs that you should use, if you see any of these, to decide to leave your job. Now the first one is”Your work environment is not healthy.” Now that’s a very good, a very important warning sign. If your work environment is not healthy, that doesn’t mean it has anything to do with how you are eating or exercise, it has to do with how you are treated.That’s right, how you feel, how you’re feeling at work, the way you’re being treated at work. It says” Stress is part of any job.” That is something we all do need to accept that there are times when we will be stressed. No matter how much you enjoy your job; there are still moments where you will be stressed. There will be stress in your life. But sometimes the frustration of your job can begin to harm you. And that’s what you need to be looking for, Ryan, is if you’re in a situation with the stress is too much, it’s starting to cause you to get sick, that is a... that is not a healthy environment anymore.Yeah. So here it actually is... it can affect your body too. But there are also... there could be many frustrations. And a frustration, of course, is something that you just don’t like. It’s hard to deal with. And so all of us, we usually have some kind of frustration in your job. But if there are too many, they can harm you. They can make you feel sick or even depressed.And “depressed” here is some... is an unhappy feeling, but more than just not being happy. It means you have no hope for a future, no hope that the future will be better, that there is a future that things will continue to get better. Depressed is both a medical condition and a word that we use to refer to being extremely sad. Here I think it more refers to actually having no hope because that’s what you need in a job is a future.Exactly, yeah. In fact, we’ve talked in the past about how you should always be wanting to improve at your job. You should be wanting to learn. If you’re feeling depressed, that usually means you feel sad to the point where you don’t want to learn, you really don’t want to keep going to work. And that’s not the way you should feel about your job. You shouldn’t be going to work just to make money. You should really enjoy it. You should want to go to work. So we see: If you hate going towork, maybe it’s time to leave.That’s right. If you hate going to work, if you wake up in the morning and the first thing you think is, “I hate my job. I don’t want to go to work,” that’s probably a good sign that it is maybe time to leave that company or to leave that part of your career. Now Ryan, I know sometimes there are mornings where even if you do love your job, you wake up just not wanting to go in. That’s not what this is talking about. This is talking about a very consistent dislike and hatred of your job, of what the work you’re doing.Yeah, it’s not just you feel tired one morning, and you don’t want to go to work, so you quit. No. It is as if it is continuing throughout your job. If you feel like you’re not being treated well and you feel depressed, maybe it’s time to find another job. Well, come back after the break. We’re going to look at more warning signs to decide whether or not you should leave your job. Before we go, let’s visit the Chat Room.−So Rachel, where has Heather been recently? I haven’t seen her working in the library for a couple of weeks now.−Well, that’s because she’s on sick leave. You know, actually, she got pneumonia. So she’s been recovering at home for a while. Sick leave is when your work grants you a leave of absence due to illness.−I’ve never had to take sick leave from work before.−Wow! You’ve been lucky, I guess. Sometimes employees get really sick, and they need to take a lot of time off before they come back to work.−Have you ever taken an absent leave, Rachel?−Uh, you mean a leave of absence?−Oh, yeah, a leave of absence?−Yes, I’ve taken a couple of leaves of absence. When my boys were born, I took maternity leave for six weeks with each child. The library was nice enough to give me six weeks off.−Did your husband take maternity leave too?−No, only women take maternity leave. He took paternity leave.−Paternity leave?−Right. That’s what we call “leave for new fathers.” However, paternity leave is usually very short.Some countries in Europe have a long paternity leave. But my husband’s company only gave him one week off with pay.−I see. So are there other kinds of work leave?−Yes. Bereavement leave is paid leave that an employee is entitled to because of the death of a family member. So when my grandpa died, I took a week of bereavement leave so I could go to his funeral in Ohio.−I had to take bereavement leave when my grandma died, I just didn’t know what to call it. So the word”bereavement” refers to the death of a loved one, right?−That’s right .Well, you know, Ken, I’m glad you asked me about Heather because I’ve been meaning to give her a call to see how she’s feeling. I hope she can come back to work soon.−Me too. It’s not the same here without her.(Chinese)Welcome back, everybody .Friends, there is a right time to leave your job and there’s a wrong time. It would be wrong to leave when your boss gives you a strange look, or to resign after the copy machine breaks down. So then, when is the right time? Honestly, I don’t know. Every person has a different “quitting point.” But I can tell you this; most people who leave their jobs say they regret that they didn’t do it sooner. From this, we learned the importance of listening to your gut instinct. OK, time to move on to our second warning sign, “You need more income,” on line 10. (Music).Is It Time to Leave Your Job?2. You need more income. Maybe you thought the salary was OK when you took the job. However, now you need more income to support your family because of different life circumstances. Or maybe you feel that you’re not making what you’re worth.3. You are not being challenged. You have been in your position for a while, and your skills have improved. Now the work you’re doing no longer seems interesting. Maybe you can get more responsibility at a different job.Hello, friends. We are going to look at more warning signs that maybe you should leave your job. Now it doesn’t make sense usually in a bad economy, when money is not easily there, to quit your job because that is your way of getting money, but sometimes it is important. Now before the break, we did talk about the first sign, and that’s about a healthy work environment. Our next one to look out for a warning sign is if you need more income.That’s right.”If you need more money...” income is the amount of money that you are earning at your job. And this makes sense. If you are not making the amount of money that you need, then maybe it would be a good time to find a new job. Maybe you thought the salary was OK when you took the job. And of course, that’s something that we mostly look at when we decide if we want to get a job is if there is enough salary.That’s right.”Salary” refers to the agreed-upon amount of money that you make in an entire year, so not by the week or by the month, but by the year. It talks about the entire sum of that money. Now Ryan, what would be the difference then between your salary and your income? Why do we have two separate words?Well, salary, like you said, is the amount of money you’re making every year. It is decided. Income is the actual money that you earn at your job, so. The money that you’re making, whether it is hourly or whether it is on a salary that is your income. That’s the money that you can use to spend on bills or things that you want to buy. And so here maybe you saw the salary that you were going to earn at your job was good, but now you need more income. You need more money to support your family because of different life circumstances.That’s right. Life changes all the time. Yeah. You may take a job thinking that the salary is what you need. And then maybe you have another child. Maybe someone is added to your family. Maybe you get a dog, or maybe you buy a house. There are different things in life that come into life that do change the amount of money we need all the times. All the time, our circumstances are changing. And it’s good to be aware of that.That’s right. Now circumstances, or the word “circumstance,” which is talking about a fact or an event that has... makes a situation the way that it is. So if you have a situation in your life that changes, then you have different circumstances. And so our lives are always changing. Once we start a job, maybe we decide to travel more, maybe we decide we want to buy nicer things.That would mean that our situation or our circumstances are changing.It says or, you know, your circumstances may change, or maybe you feel that you are not making what you’re worth. And I know, unfortunately, that happens a lot. When you’re working, you’re giving a lot of effort. You’re putting 100 percent of your focus into your job, and you’re giving so much. And you’re not getting paid the amount that you are giving in, putting into the job. You are worth more. And sometimes, Ryan, that’s true. You can be worth more than what you’re getting paid. So it’s important to think about that in a job.That’s right. Yeah, we usually think of the word “worth” referring to how much money something is. But here we’re talking about how your skills are used. Maybe you have spent a lot of time in school. You spent a lot of time practicing. You have skills, but you’re not being paid very much money for using them, so. You know, maybe if you’re not getting paid very much money, if you need more income, it’s time to look for a new job.That’s right. And along the line of skills, our next point is “You are not being challenged.” Now that is very important. In a job, you don’t want to be over challenged. You don’t want to be doing something you are not prepared for. But you also do not want to be in a job where you have no place to grow, where there’s nothing to continue onward if you’re staying in the same place. We need to always be learning. We need to be lifelong learners, always pursuing knowledge. So this is part of being in a job is being challenged.That’s right, yeah. Usually we think of a challenge is being something that’s hard to deal with, and that’s true. And you usually don’t want too many challenges, but you don’t want no challenges either. You want there to be a little bit of challenge that we are always learning. You’re always trying to improve, so you...We see here You have been in your position for a while, and your skills have improved. That’s good. That’s what you want at your job.So that is a good situation to be in, your skills are improving. But now the work you’re doing no longer seems interesting.” That is something that you need to think about. If you’re bored at work, if you’re sitting just looking on the Internet doing nothing, that is something to consider. Maybe moving on is a good idea.Yeah, that’s true. Maybe you’re skilled in music, but you’re sitting there looking at reports. It’s not necessarily going to help you improve, so maybe you can get more responsibility at a different job.” And that’s true. You want to have responsibility. If you’re responsible, it means you can take care of different tasks.That’s right. You don’t want to sit in an office or in any sort of work environment just being bored, doing nothing, feeling like you have put nothing into your job. That is... await the end of day when you just don’t feel good about yourself .So if that’s the way your job is going, it just might be a goodtime to consider looking for a new career.Yeah, it might be time to find a different job. These are very good tips to help you realize if the job you are in might not be the right job for you. It might be time for you to find a different job. Join us tomorrow as we will tell you more tips about finding the right job for you. We’ll see you next time. Before you leave, let’s watch today’s skit.−Smith, give me a cup of coffee.−No!−No?−No. Mr. Jones. I’m leaving this job. It’s time to quit.−But the economy is bad right now. How can you consider quitting?−Warning signs are pointing me toward the exit door.−What warning signs?−Frustration and stress. This work environment is not healthy.−Not healthy? What do you mean?−I’m sick and depressed. I hate coming to work.−So you hate this job, and you think it’s time to leave.−Right. Besides, I need more income.−But your salary was OK when you started.−But circumstances change. I have a family now. Besides, I’m not making what I’m worth.−You’re making what you’re worth.−No. I’ve been at this position for quite a while. My skills have improved.−So your work is easier now.−That’s good. But I’m not challenged. My work no longer seems interesting.−OK, so you hate this job, and you need more income, and your job is not challenging?−Exactly. So, I’m resigning .I’m moving forward. I’m quitting.−Well, not so fast, Smith. Take more time to think about it.−Well, hmm...−And uh, while you’re thinking about it, get me another cup of coffee.−Hmm...(Chinese).And you don’t want to miss what comes next. Stay tuned. Thank you so much, Michelle. We appreciate those tips. Friends, if you know in your gut that it’s time to quit your job, note that it will require a measure of courage, passion and confidence. It will likely cost you some money as well. If you think the cost is too much, though, consider that staying will likely cost you even more. Working at a bad job long enough can rob your energy, your motivation, self-worth, possibly your health. And in a worst case scenario, your very life. OK, more signs that it’s time to resign tomorrow. As always, I and everyone else here at Studio Classroom hope you have a great day. Bye-bye. (Music).。