Forget all that fancy career guidance stuff - our simple quiz will help you find the right workplace, writes Jenny Tabakoff.
Do you feel a square peg in a round hole? It could be you're doing the wrong job.

Take a few minutes to do MyCareer's quick career quiz and you'll have a better idea of whether your job is giving you what you really need.

1.What do you enjoy most about your job?
a) The challenges and opportunities.
b) The money.
c) Socialising with colleagues.
d) The air-conditioning.

2.You go to work:
a) With a spring in your step.
b) Mentally recomposing your CV.
c) With a baseball cap and a misspelt name badge.
d) Dragging yourself by the collar (as Carl Scully has said he did when he was transport minister).

3. How will you spend your first hour at work on Monday?
a) Emailing colleagues about the brilliant ideas you've had over the weekend.
b) Catching up on gossip.
c) Cleaning out the fryers.
d) Alone, sobbing over a coffee.

4. You spend your lunchtimes:
a) Food? Who needs food when work is this much fun?
b) Eating at your desk.
c) At your desk, rewriting your CV.
d) Under your desk, napping.

5. When offered a new challenge or promotion, you:
a) Accept and say, "When do I start?"
b) Accept and say, "About time."
c) Refuse and say, "No, I like doing what I do now."
d) Run.

6) Your boss is most likely to say:
a) "Of course you can have tomorrow off. You deserve it."
b) "I'm relying on you to stay back another eight hours tonight."
c) "Have I ever told you that you have very blue eyes?"
d) "You. In here. Now."

7. You are most likely to say:
a) "That's my final offer. Take it or leave it."
b) "Come on, guys, let's wrap up this lunch. It's nearly four o'clock."
c) "I am calling from India about your internet broadband connection."
d) "Do you want fries with that?"

8. As a child you wanted to grow up and become:
a) Exactly what your boss does now.
b) Exactly what you do now.
c) A kept man or woman.
d) A superhero.

9. If you do something wrong at work, you:
a) Immediately tell the truth.
b) Think of lying, but tell the truth.
c) Think of telling the truth, but lie.
d) Immediately lie and blame someone else.

10. If you do something brilliant at work, you:
a) Rush out, tell the world and demand a pay rise.
b) Inform the people who need to know.
c) Say nothing and wait for praise to come to you.
d) Give the credit to someone else.

11. In the past year you have:
a) Taken no sick leave (because you were never sick).
b) Taken no sick leave (even though you were sick).
c) Taken all your sick leave (because you were sick).
d) Taken all your sick leave (even though you were never sick).

12. If you won lotto you would:
a) Not even think of leaving your job because you are so happy and fulfilled.
b) Take a month off to see if you prefer living on an island paradise.
c) Run immediately into your boss saying, "There are a few things I've always wanted to say to you ..."
d) Not bother coming back into work even to resign.

13. Your resignation letter would include the words:
a) "I have loved every minute here, so it is with great regret that I ..."
b) "I have been offered better pay/office/prospects elsewhere ..."
c) "I have those photos I took at the Christmas party of you and X from Accounts, so you'd better give me a good reference."
d) "Take this job and shove it."

14. At what sort of workplace would you feel most at home?
a) One that lets your creativity take flight.
b) One that helps your career take flight.
c) One that lets your bank balance take flight.
d) One that lets you take flight as quickly as possible.

15. At work you are most happy
a) Making decisions.
b) Making for the door at 5pm.
c) Making tea.
d) Making faces behind your boss's back.

16. How many stolen Post-it notes do you have at home?
a) What? Me? Just the one pad, honest.
b) The usual drawerful.
c) The spare room is filled with them.
d) There are too many to keep at home. I rented a warehouse.

HOW TO INTERPRET THE RESULTS
Mostly As: You're a cheerful type, aren't you? Either you're on your way to the top, or you're very good at self-deception. Let's assume the first.

Mostly Bs: You're not executive material but on the whole you enjoy your job and get out of it as much as you put in. Stand up for yourself a bit more.

Mostly Cs: Not only does your job not challenge you, you don't want it to. Switching jobs is not as important as switching your attitude to work - but maybe switching jobs would help.

Mostly Ds: You're a doormat. Your job is a disaster, and you're disastrous in it. Get out of there - and upgrade your skills while you're at it.

Seriously, though ...
To find whether you're in the right job and advice on what to do about it if you're not:
* The Career Development Association of Australia (www.cdaa.org.au) can put you in touch with a career counsellor.
* The Federal Government's JobSearch website (www.jobsearch .gov.au) has information on the outlook and skills needed for jobs.
* The MyCareer website (www.mycareer.com.au) has lots of jobs, plus work and career advice.
* Hobsons Guides to tertiary study provide advice on courses and careers from education specialists (www.thegoodguides .com.au).
* Group Training Australia provides advice on apprenticeships and traineeships (www.gtaltd.com.au).
* The Australian Psychological Society will help you find a psychologist to aid you with vocational assessment (look under "Community Information" at www.psychology.org.au).