Your attitude to work

To pull one’s socks up

To be up to one’s eyes in work

Workaholic

To be committed to smth, smb

To take up much time / energy / effort

To learn by experience

To keep one’s nose to the grindstone

To be an asset to the company

Competent /efficient / skilled / trained / capable / experienced / qualified;

Ant: incompetent, inefficient, unskilled, incapable, inexperienced, unqualified

To be capable of doing smth

Fair to (on) smb / just to smb; Ant: unfair, unjust

Industrious / hard-working / diligent; Ant: lazy, idle

To be responsible for; Ant: irresponsible, negligent

To be pleasant to deal with

Confident; Ant: uncertain, timid, shy

Self-confident, self-reliant

Decisive; Ant: indecisive (indecision)

To lack confidence in oneself

Ambitious

To be motivated by ambition

To act from the best motives

Job hopper

To get itchy feet

To rest on one’s laurels

To lie down / to go to sleep on one’s job

The Best Job

Demanding

Rewarding

Satisfying

Challenging

Varied; Ant: unvaried

Career prospects / opportunities

Job satisfaction

The main attraction of a job

Chances of promotion

Motivation to work hard

Good working conditions

To do smth on one’s own responsibility

To be under competent management

Fringe benefits / perks:

sick pay, paid holiday, excellent pension plan / scheme

To reimburse travel expenses

The Worst Job

Frustrating

Backbreaking

Tough / difficult / painstaking

Low-status

Menial

Slave labour

Boring / monotonous / dull / tedious / uninteresting / flat

To get bored by smth; to bore smb to death / tears

To reprimand smb for doing smth

To get smb down

That’s the last straw!

It’s not the end of the world.

Teaching

To make a good teacher

To be skillful with the subject

To be update in a subject

A well-behaved class

Manageable, Ant: unmanageable

To foster democracy

To promote self-study

To have a bag full of tricks up one’s sleeve

To set up a high standard of / in achievement

To encourage good disciplinary habits, Ant: discourage, dispirit

To keep a cool head

Attractive / charming / pleasing / enchanting, Ant: unattractive

Atmosphere: businesslike, instructive, creative, encouraging, relaxed,

tense, unpleasant, frustrating

To get disillusioned

To put scorn on children

To squash student’s motivation to study

To demand beyond smb’s abilities

To fit the mold

To reward unjustly

To suppress smb

To have favourites and outcasts

To disrupt class

Breaches of discipline

Problem students

Overloaded curriculum

Resigning

To quit / to leave / to vacate / to resign / to give up

To hand in notice / to give in notice

To leave without notice, at short notice

To resign from a post, to resign one’s post

To send in / hand in / tender one’s resignation

To give up / abandon a career

To retire, to take early retirement

To be made / become / find oneself redundant / to be laid off

To fire / to throw out of work / to dismiss from a post/ to sack / to give the sack

Dismissal

To give notice

To cut back on the staff / to make cutbacks

To close down

To give a golden handshake

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