Work Life Balance Quiz

1. My friends would describe me as

Fun loving and easy going

Someone who takes my work a little too seriously

Friends? Between work, family and Facebook, I dont have time for real friends

2.

The kids want to go camping in the school holidays so I :

Book my leave in advance and take my phone with me in case work needs me

Refuse because I hate camping, but take a day off to go surfing with them instead

Tell them my laptop battery would run out, and give them some money for the movies

3. The dog needs walking

It’s part of my routine so I have been looking forward to it all day

Hey, can someone walk the dog!

Didn’t we get rid of that dog last year?

4. When I wake up

I feel positive about the day

OK, another day, let’s just get on with it

I can barely wake up, I was up all night working on that spreadsheet!

5. My partner and I set aside time for each other

Daily

When I can fit it in

Didn't someone used to live here with me?

6. I've missed my daughter's birthday party

Never

Once, but I emailed her

Family birthdays are so overrated

7. It's 2 o'clock in the morning. I am

Snoring

Still up, checking to see who's written what on my Facebook wall

Sitting up in bed, working on that spreadsheet

8. I take time to take a lunch break

Frequently

Not as often as I’d like

You could feed a small country with the crumbs in my keyboard

9. It's my sick Grandmother's 88^th birthday and she lives across town

I pick up chocolates on the way to see her

I order flowers to be delivered

Was that last week? Oh well, I’ll do something next year

10.

I booked a day of annual leave to attend my children's school sports day, which is cancelled due to bad weather.

I mke the most of the day, hope the weather clears so I can get some gardening done

I still take the day off, work from home, but meet the kids after school to go to the movies

I cancel my leave and go into work

11. My child woke up with a tummy ache on a day I had a few meetings.

Rearranged my schedule, and took a day of domestic leave to look after them

Worked from home and dialled into the meetings

They arent dying, so I pack them off to school so I could get to work

12.

My partner surprised me with a romantic weekend away. I rushed to

Pack a bottle of Moet

Make sure I packed a phone charger just in case someone from work needs me

Check on the internet if there is T3G coverage there for my laptop, and add hotel details to my out of office email message

13.

I love to buy fresh vegetables from the shop down the road from home

Half the fun is making the kids eat them at dinner time

Most of them have gone off by the time I go to eat them

Aren’t there vegetables in a Big Mac