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Would You Still Do Your Job for Free?

The title question only measures half of it. What work is for is one question; how you want to be managed while you do it is a completely different one, and plenty of people who love the work want nothing to do with the ladder it comes attached to.

Twenty-four statements, about four minutes, and a point on a map. Answer for the work you do, or the work you would take if the choice were yours.

24 questions

Answered 0 of 24

  1. 1 If I never had to work again, I would stop.
  2. 2 I do better work when somebody more senior is checking it.
  3. 3 I would rather have a hard problem with no instructions than an easy one with them.
  4. 4 I would take less support in exchange for fewer people involved in what I do.
  5. 5 Being unsure of the boundaries of my role does not bother me.
  6. 6 Being handed a process to follow is a relief rather than a constraint.
  7. 7 I want to know exactly what is expected of me before I start.
  8. 8 Being good at what I do matters to me beyond what it earns.
  9. 9 Rules that apply to everyone beat judgment calls made case by case.
  10. 10 Work where nobody tells me the method suits me.
  11. 11 What I do for work is a large part of how I think of myself.
  12. 12 A job is a trade: hours for money.
  13. 13 I want to be able to see where a job leads before I take it.
  14. 14 I have turned down more interesting work because the money was better.
  15. 15 I have changed the way something was done without asking first.
  16. 16 I would change fields entirely for a large enough raise.
  17. 17 Given two jobs at the same pay, I would take the one that mattered more to me.
  18. 18 I would find it strange to introduce myself without saying what I do.
  19. 19 I would rather work out the right thing to do than be told it.
  20. 20 A clear chain of who decides what makes a place work better.
  21. 21 The best thing about work that goes well is what it lets me do outside it.
  22. 22 I think about work problems when I am not working.
  23. 23 Time off is what the working time is for.
  24. 24 I would keep doing something like my work even if I did not need the income.