Quiz: Career-break-o-meter

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1. When asked if you're still working at the same place you:

	Say yes and enthusiastically describe what you've been up to.
	Nod and say 'yes'.
	Feebly pretend you're now a fighter pilot/downhill skier/gossip columnist/fashion designer.

2. When your colleagues arrive at work they:

	Greet you cheerily.
	Nod hellos as they walk past.
	Mistake you for a piece of furniture and stick their coats over your head.

3. When your alarm wakes you up, you:

	Bound out of bed and leap into the shower whistling.
	Hit the snooze button.
	Spend 20 minutes inventing credible illnesses you can phone in sick with.

4. When you look at the office clock you think:

	Where on earth did the afternoon go?
	Oh, is that the time?
	WHY DO YOU MOCK ME?

5. Your boss is:

	In many ways a role model.
	Okay.
	Currently pinned to your dartboard.

6. If you won the lottery you would:

	Carry on working.
	Throw a lavish leaving party at work.
	Buy a 51% stake in your employer's company, bulldoze their offices to the ground, then fly a plane over the rubble with a banner reading 'NOT IGNORING ME NOW ARE YOU?'

7. Your office party is a bit like:

	The last days of Rome.
	A night out with your friends.
	That 'Meet The Parents' movie.

8. The last time you phoned in sick you:

	Were so ill you could barely get to the phone.
	Needed to take one of your kids to the doctors.
	Realised shortly afterwards that you'd already claimed to have gone to two grandmother's funerals.

9. On a Sunday evening you:

	Read up on the issues that will be affecting your business.
	Chill out by watching some rubbish on telly.
	Develop a faint gnawing dread in your stomach at around the time Songs of Praise comes on.

10. Your boss has:

	A great sense of humour.
	A reasonable sense of humour.
	A framed picture of Attila the Hun above their desk.

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