This study aims to investigate the perceptions held by new teachers in Taiwan concerning the factors conducive to or impeding their decisions to stay in teaching and the process of deliberation on intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing their retentions. The authors have found that the decisions to stay of the participants were influenced by both intrinsic factors (and favorable extrinsic factors. Moreover, their perceptions of highly competitive entry into teaching tended to prevent them from easily giving up on teaching.