Family Stress Test

tmorris@scofflaw.convex.com (Terry Morris)

(original, chuckle)

As part of a seminar I recently attended on stress in the workplace, I was given a packet which included a family stress test. Our family found that all of the questions fell into what we considered the "wuss" category, and generated our own family stress test:

Score 0 if the statement is never true, 1 if it is rarely true, 2 if it is sometimes true, and 3 if it is always true.

1. ____ Conversations often begin with "Put the gun down, and then we can 
 talk."

2. ____ The school principal has your number on speed-dial.

3. ____ The cat is on Valium.

4. ____ People have trouble understanding your kids, because they learned to 
 speak through clenched teeth.

5. ____ You are trying to get your four-year-old to switch to decaf.

6. ____ The number of jobs held down by family members exceeds the number
 of people in the family.

7. ____ No one has time to wait for microwave TV dinners.

8. ____ "Family meetings" are often mediated by law enforcement officials.

9. ____ You have to check your kid's day-timer to see if he can take out 
 the trash.

10.____ Maxwell House gives you industrial rates.

 Scoring:

 30 - a perfect score. Welcome to the neighborhood!

 20-29 - You are doing reasonably well, but still have too little
   going on in your life. Crank it up.
 
 10-19 - You have mastered some of the aspects of the stress-filled
  life, but still have a long way to go. Have you considered
    a parallel career path?

 0-9 - Enjoying all that extra time? What do you do anyway?