Using some expressions related to work. I worked in the HR, in particular, in an recruitment agency, for some years. At the beginning I liked it a lot because I was working for a big company which used to care about their employees' formation. In fact we attended several, useful training courses. Then, thanks to our dynamic work, we were in contact with many people who were searching for a new job and with different companies searching for the perfect candidate. And we were supposed to make both needs meet. How? We had to be FOCUSED on the description of the ideal candidate for the enterprise and TO GET DOWN to the important matter of choosing the best options in our database. We used TO WORK FLAT OUT till we succeed in having a deal with the company. Needless to say that there were PRODUCTIVE and UNPRODUCTIVE days independently of our effort. We used TO KEEP OUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE to try to achieve the weekly target. But with the arrival of the economic crisis of the 2008, it started getting harder and harder to reach those goals. And our supervisors began to be a bit bossy. Some colleagues and I started TO RUN OUT OF STEAM and to feel really FLAGGING. And the cherry on the cake was when they changed our manager for a double-faced person, who wanted to climb the ladder very fast with very little effort. I couldn't GET ON WITH him, so, for the sake of my health (it was at that time that I started suffering from gastritis!), I decided to quit that beautiful but really stressful job!