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Job-loss anxiety hits 1 in 3 workers

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<p><img alt="Getty Images" title="Getty Images" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/shine/work/job_anxiety3323-000072.jpg" align="right" width="250" height="163">More than a third of working Americans are anxious about their job security in 2009, according to a recent Yahoo! HotJobs survey.</p><br> <p>The feeling is certainly understandable, with rising unemployment and daily gloom from news outlets about layoffs and financial fears. In fact, I'm surprised the number from the survey isn't higher.

Your work is likely suffering if you work for a rude boss

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At one of my past jobs I worked for someone I consider a truly toxic person. He would go out of his way to make people feel bad, embarrassed, insecure, and he would often talk about doing this intentionally. “I like to put people off-balance and see how they react,” he would say.

Once I’d made a mistake in a document we had to send out. I’d emailed him the document to review and instead of emailing me back to let me know about the mistake, he forwarded the document to our client, with the mistake in it, saying that I’d authored it and if they had any comments, to get back to us. When the client responded, they pointed out the mistake and my boss came into my office to tell me that he knew it was in there, but he didn’t correct it because he wanted to me to learn from the embarrassment of my mistake. (I don’t cry at the office, as a rule, but I came close that day.)

5 reasons you should not quit a job you hate

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I get to write a post like this because:

I’ve quit many jobs I hated and many of those were for the wrong reasons

I’ve not quit two jobs for some of the reasons I list below and I think it was the right thing for my career

Now that we got that over with, here are 5 reasons why you should not quit a job you hate: