New Year's Resolutions - Should You Quit Your Job in 2008?
KANSAS CITY (PRNewswire), December 30, 2007 - If you have a New Year's resolution to quit your job in 2008, you are not alone. A recent survey found 77% of visitors to the career website FabJob are dissatisfied with their jobs and are planning to look for new career opportunities in 2008.
If you are still undecided, here are 25 signs you should quit your job in 2008:
1. I find it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
2. I often arrive late for work.
3. Once I arrive at work, it takes me a while to actually get started
working.
4. I sit at my desk and daydream.
5. I have less patience with customers or co-workers than I used to.
6. I spend time at work doing personal tasks.
7. I look at job websites on the Internet when I'm at work.
8. I get impatient with rules and red tape at work.
9. I take longer breaks than I should.
10. When I have to phone people as part of my job I spend more time
chatting than I need to.
11. I feel tired during the workday.
12. I don't bother mentioning concerns to the boss because it's usually a
waste of time.
13. If I leave the office during the day, I take my time getting back to
work.
14. I do the minimum amount of work required.
15. I check the time throughout the day to see how close to quitting time
it is.
16. I feel bored at work.
17. I "kill time" during the day by chatting with co-workers or doing
other non-essential tasks.
18. I schedule medical and other personal appointments during working
hours.
19. I start getting ready to leave work before quitting time.
20. I am out the door as soon as it is quitting time.
21. On the weekends I look at the job classifieds or surf job sites on
the Internet.
22. I have called in sick when I could actually have worked.
23. I complain to my friends about my job.
24. I have trouble sleeping on Sunday nights because I'm thinking about
having to go back to work.
25. When I'm on holidays I dread going back to work.
|
Help-Wanted Advertising Declined in All Nine U.S. Regions
KANSAS CITY (SLFP.com), December 30, 2007 - The Conference Board Help-Wanted Advertising Index -- a key measure of job offerings in major newspapers across America -- dipped one point in November. The Index now stands at 21. It was 29 one year ago.
In the last three months, help-wanted advertising declined in all nine U.S. regions. Steepest declines occurred in the Pacific (-12.8%), Mountain (-12.5%), and West North Central (-12.4%) regions.
In a statement, Ken Goldstein, labor economist at The Conference Board, said: "The forward indicators of labor market activity offer little hope that the labor market will be spared. The latest readings on print want-ad volume show some slowing in recent months, after slowly losing steam through the spring and summer. Data for online advertising also point to reduced job recruitment efforts. Initial unemployment claims have edged higher. It's not good news when more people are signing up for unemployment checks, and the average length of unemployment is lengthening. The JOLTS data (Job Openings and Labor Turnover) also showed remarkably little change through October. These forward indicators of labor market activity are consistent with slowing growth."
In November there were 4,072,600 online advertised vacancies, a decrease of 89,100 or -2.1 percent from the October level, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series. There were 2.65 advertised vacancies online for every 100 persons in the labor force in November.
|
Company's Support for Work/Life Balance May Impact Male Workers' Opinions
The Kansas City Front Page is owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan Kansas City area. Text or graphics may not be copied, rewritten or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission. For more information, contact editor@slfp.com All rights reserved world wide © 2007 - 2008 Moore Design Group.