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Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on The Penny Hoarder. How and why you leave a job matters, especially to a potential employer who’s considering hiring you. Good or bad, future employers will want to know your reasons for leaving a job or why you’re trying to do so. How much your exit will matter to a potential employer largely hinges on what happened and how you frame it.