• Ever get the feeling your nearest and dearest haven’t got a clue what you actually do for a living, or just how beastly your boss really is?
Yes, we’ve all been there. And now Guru hears one in five of us reckon our loved ones would be hard pushed to describe how we spend the vast majority of our waking hours.
Tell-tale signs are blank expressions and non-committal nodding.
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Apparently what most irks us poor, hard done by souls are assumptions that we’re a) well paid, b) have a job that is glamorous, c) are always in meetings and d) are less stressed than everyone else.
Oh dear, Guru thinks we’ve all been rumbled.