by Dale Kurow, M.S., MCDP, Executive Coach

Everyone's heard about the recent layoffs and downsizing in the financial industry due to the mortgage crisis and the fire sale of Bear Stearns. Some of the retrenchment is now flowing over into other sectors, as expected.

Are you worrying about how to stay valuable to your current employer and how to avoid the unemployment line?

This quiz will help you find out if you're doing everything you can to recession-proof your career.

Answer true or false to the following questions. With each true answer you become more indispensable to your company.

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CareerBuilder.com writer

The average American spends a lot of time at work -- more than 1800 hours a year -- but do you love your job or are you frequently daydreaming about being somewhere (or anywhere) else?

Are you in a job that suits you? How about your work environment?

By M. Wolfe, AOL Find a Job

Is it one that allows you to shine for who you are and recognizes the unique contribution that only you can make? If you take your quest for job satisfaction seriously these are questions you might want to ask. Knowing a bit more about your "work type" can help you feel more at home in your current job. It's also useful if you are considering going back into that vast -- and sometimes scary -- place known as the "job market."

Take this quiz to help you determine your work type. It is designed at a very basic level to help you better know who you are. It's then up to you to leverage that knowledge to create a career that helps you thrive. The quiz will help you "think out of the box" as you consider your many options. Based on the well-known work of a mother-daughter team, Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs-Myers, career counselors and others use quizzes like these "to help people make their perceptions clearer, their judgments sounder and their life closer to [their] heart's desire."