Oh wow, I have to get this from the library -- these sound like really interesting people. A business writer from Utah who wrote a book about rewarding employees on a daily basis??? Not your normal business book author! OMG, remember the one minute manager? I read a counter to that, the 59 second employee. I wasn't sure if it was satire...

I'd like to see a category for people who work to live - like you, I want work-life balance because I value freedom and enjoy my hobbies. I don't quickly recognize myself in any of these, so maybe taking the test would be worthwhile for me... Like, I would say that I am not a builder, but the only part of supervising I *did* like was helping people develop their skills and move on to bigger and better things -- and I love having my own company.

Caregiving - yeah, I would rather be at home. I enjoy solving people's problems and making their work-life easier.

Achieving - I like getting things done and checking off items on my to-do lists. I like doing. I don't like being a team lead and being responsible for other people's doing of things because other people never seem as driven to do as I am... and then I just pick up the slack and wind up really burned out and resentful. Trying to get better at that! I am finally starting to realize that this perpetual frustration I've always had is due to *me* being different and not other people being lazy.

And I do want rewards (just money, thanks) because the more reward, the less I have to work.

Your boss is such a bad boss. Really, just head-shakingly bad. I do hope you can switch to another team or even get part of your hours shifted. How do these places stay in business when they are so badly managed?!

It sounds like you have room in your schedule for freelance or volunteer projects -- just to keep your hand in things and have something in your portfolio if/when you decide to jump ship

Re: what I want to do or what my backup plan is - no, still no clue. Or maybe I have clues, but I change my mind every five minutes. I would say that I have ... 5-6 projects that I'd like to finish and launch. A couple are or were frustratingly close to being done. And then there's this idea that I might like to sell services. I would much rather sell products than services, but services are quick money...

So I move in the direction of keeping my options open. When will I focus?!