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Should I stay or should I go?

decision for staying or quiting your job Take this quiz to help decide whether to stay at your current job or if it’s time to move on.

1 How long have you been in your job?
a) It feels like centuries. Someone please get me out of my misery.
b) Less than 6 months or more than 2 years.
c) 6 months – 2 years

2 What’s your first thought when you wake up on a Monday morning?
a) I would rather pull my fingernails out with pliers than go to work.
b) Snooze! So what if I’m late …
c) Got that big meeting on today. Glad I dry-cleaned my suit and polished my shoes.

3 What do you do when you first get to work?
a) Take a stroll around the building, make a tea/coffee, catch up on office gossip, make another tea/coffee, clean my already very clean desk …
b) Catch up on reading your favourite blogs and newspapers online, then consider doing some work.
c) Get straight into it and enjoy every minute.

4 How do you feel after work?
a) Drained, depressed and tense.
b) Just glad to be finished for the day.
c) Satisfied about another productive day.

5 How do you feel about your colleagues?
a) The battlescars say it all.
b) They are ok, a little bit dull/loud/geeky/obnoxious for my liking.
c) We really click and sometimes go out for after-work drinks.

6 What’s your relationship with management like?
a) I spend most of my day dreaming up possible scenarios for their painful demise.
b) I don’t have too much respect for them but can we generally function from day to day.
c) I know they are not perfect but we have a good working relationship.

7 How does your work show you their appreciation for your work?
a) A whole lot more work in my inbox.
b) An email acknowledging a job well done.
c) A genuine thanks, bonuses, company-paid work lunches and other rewards.

8 What’s the best thing about your job?
a) Lunchtime.
b) I get paid (but not enough!).
c) The work is challenging, my colleagues are great and I love coming to work.

9 It’s pay day. What are your thoughts?
a) Is that all I get for putting myself through all this torture?
b) Maybe I should get a better-paying job.
c) Good to get money, but that’s not the reason I enjoy my job.

10 Picture yourself at this company six months from now. How does this make you feel?
a) Excuse me, I think I’m going to be sick.
b) I just wonder whether anything at work will have changed.
c) I can see opportunities for career advancement and am quite excited.

The results…



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