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The stress test

Try this quiz by Sue Hubberstey and Jan Hurst to check if you're on top of the job or if it's getting on top of you. Is your job stressing you out? Work-induced stress can mess up your life.

Is your job stressing you out? Work-induced stress can mess up your life.

Our quiz should help you assess whether you adapt well to the daily challenges of nannying or you really are becoming so overwhelmed with it all that you are putting your health and happiness - and that of your charges - at risk.

1. No matter how hard you work, your employer finds fault. Do you:

A. Ignore her and carry on as always?

B. Initiate a meeting to set down some ground rules?

C. Do whatever she says, because after all, she's the boss?

2. Your bank account is heavily overdrawn. Do you:

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