Take this quick test to check your knowledge of the "Rules of Work." You can keep a tally on a scratch pad, or print this page out and mark your answers.
Rate the following statements, true or false.
- TRUE / FALSE
If I change careers, I will lose all my seniority and most of my salary.
- TRUE / FALSE
Changing careers means I'm disloyal/a malcontent/unemployable.
- TRUE / FALSE
I only know how to do the job I've been doing for the last 439 years. None of my experience is relevant to another field.
- TRUE / FALSE
Work wasn't meant to be fun. That's why they call it work.
- TRUE / FALSE
My employer isn't interested in what I want. He'll just work me as hard as he can.
- TRUE / FALSE
If I'm loyal, the company will take care of me.
- TRUE / FALSE
My major in college determines the industries I can work in.
- TRUE / FALSE
No one will take me seriously if I don't have an MBA.
- TRUE / FALSE
It doesn't matter what I want.
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