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What does “Burnout” really mean?
How do you know you’re burning out? What are the symptoms?
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Never had a burnout because i love working. So i dont know
No motivation to do your work. No other teams seem interesting to you.
Went to office on Monday morning and left on Wednesday night. Slept every alternate night in office for few months. Life was work, eat, sleep. That's burnout. Office had couple of bunk beds and if you are lucky you may get bed to sleep instead of desk.
OMG that is what i can say
That happened at JPMC?
When you see the RPM rising and smell burning rubber. Make sure you dont destroy your clutch.
When you realize tomorrow is Monday.
You mean, Sunday scaries?
That’s a sign, yes Also no joy in things you used to love to do at work Insomnia
If you have been working crazy (usually measured in hrs/day, and surprisingly productivity is not a part of this equation) for x amount of months/years and suddenly you find yourself staring at a wall for hours on a Monday afternoon and wonder, what the actual f am I doing with me life. That feeling is loosely termed as "burnout".
Measuring Hrs/day instead of productivity is the root of the problem: when productivity rate drops you compensate by working more hours which in turn worsens burnout and causes productivity rate to decrease even more and so you have to work even more hours to compensate and so on. It's a positive feedback loop.
Every day is the worst day🤷🏻♂️ https://youtu.be/Q9eSOMWRmAw
I had an ex who worked insane hours at a top law firm, making around 500k. One day he couldn’t take it anymore and quit. Now he’s a wannabe writer. Basically he started to hate work to the point where he didn’t care as much about money anymore. That’s burnout to me, with a side of mid-life crisis.
this sounds familiar. it's like the value function of working collapses and you just don't see any point in it anymore did you lose respect for him? wannabe writer doesn't sound so good
I didn’t because I figured he’d come to his senses one day. He never did, just went on to get an MFA and further burn through savings. But he was still the same (mostly sane) intelligent person and I didn’t rely on him financially.
No motivation to do things you used to love
This is not entirely true! You can still have a burnout doing what you love and still be motivated to do more of it
Agree with @Microsoft. Also it can last for years, I think I am in it coz of non work related personal life issues and haven’t quite found a way out