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Dustin Williams is a Career Counselor at UMKC. He has a dual Bachelors in Psychology/ Sociology & a Masters in Counseling. Has learned a few tricks over the years that have landed him jobs, and college helped round off his rough edges.

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Top 5 reasons to leave a job

5. Getting yelled at (almost) everyday: Maybe it’s me but I can’t stand being yelled at. It reminds me of getting scolded as a kid. Sets my teeth on edge.
4. Compound stress. Psychology points out prolonged low-grade stress is worse for us than trauma stress.

3. Hit a plateau on learning. Stalled out on the way to the brass ring? Not acquiring any new skills? For some people that is just fine, for me it’s enough to chew the straps off the bed and take a nose dive out the window.

2. Grown within the limits of a company. Can’t progress? Maybe it’s time to move somewhere movement is possible.

1. Not making enough money. It is all a balancing act. But this issue seems to tip the scales for many of us. Income increases happiness only to a certain point before other factors take more of a front seat. In other words: until someone is somewhat financially stable money can theoretically alter happiness a bunch. Past that point the green stuff is only a part of job satisfaction.

And here is my favorite office prank for Cherryh

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Posted on: Sep 3 2008 - 03:15:00 PM

Tags: GET OUT! TOP 5 TRANSITIONING

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I don't know how come people can get by with "yelling" at their employees. Where the hell is human rescourses? One cannot make a comment of any nature about another's appearance or say a word that could be offensive to race, color, or culture yet the boss can berate employees up one side and down the other in front of co-workers till he/she gets their rocks off??? Pleeeeeze. Besides...outside of work their ass would be grass! Office politics are stupid! As far as the money-work satisfaction goes...go to work for yourself. Fk the man!

Posted 11 weeks ago by paulie

I was a GS-11 professional with over nine years experience with the USDA when a supervisor actually yelled at me. I was shocked but it turned out not to be the first time he raised his voice or scolded me for petty infractions like taking my lunch at 12:15 instead of 12:00, having my work not neatly stacked in my inbox/outbox, slipping my feet out of my shoes under my desk... I think he combed the hair on his butt, too. After three years of this and several traumatic experiences outside of work, plus the supervisory staff being profoundly unsympathetic to the fact that my husband was terminally ill and frequently in the hospital (and required care at home & frequent use of family leave -- I was actually disciplined for using family leave, even though I followed the rules) -- I retired on medical. For psychiatric reasons following a nervous breakdown.

Posted 11 weeks ago by Rosie