Between August and December 2017 an anonymous online survey was undertaken to ascertain from people across many workplace settings what they felt about self-care, how working life felt, and the degree to which self-care is practiced. Fifty-seven people responded, and whilst this isn’t a large number it is possible to draw some simple conclusions from the responses. Of the 57 who responded 7 were male and 50 were female, aged between 18 to 74, of whom 48 were employed, 8 self-