Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management Volume 03, Issue 2, (2013) 25-30 www.awer-center/gjbem Do teachers think of quitting their job Hülya Pehlivan *, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education, EBB, Beytepe/ Ankara, 06800, Turkey. Pınar Köseoğlu, Hacettepe University, OFMAE, Beytepe /Ankara, 06800, Turkey. Suggested Citation: Pehlivan, H. & Köseoğlu, P. (2013). Do teachers think of quitting their job. Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management. 3(2), 25-30. Received 12 September, 2013; revised 01 October, 2013; accepted 09 November, 2013. Selection and peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Andreea Iluzia IACOB, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania © 2013 SPROC LTD. Academic World Education & Research Center. All rights reserved. Abstract This research aims to examine whether or not teachers of secondary education institutions resign from their jobs on the basis of a) gender, b) seniority, c) field of teaching, d) order of preferences, and e) factors influential in their preferring the teaching profession. The research was conducted with 434 teachers, 265 of whom were female and 169 of whom were male. The participants were given a questionnaire in order to gather the data required. The Chi- square was employed in the analyses. The findings obtained demonstrated that the situations in which teachers thought of quitting their job differed according to gender and seniority while they did not differ on the basis of the field of teaching. Besides, there were no differences on the basis of the order of presences and the factors influential in their preferring the teaching profession. The findings revealed that the majority of the teachers liked their job and that they did not think of quitting it. Keywords: Teachers, gender, desire to quit the job. *ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Hülya Pehlivan, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education, EBB, Beytepe/ Ankara, 06800, Turkey. E-mail address: hulyapeh@hacettepe.edu.tr