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Serious: find another job. I think burnout happens when you put your standards higher than you can achieve. But there are different kind of standards. * You c
by pasta 10y ago
Serious: find another job.
I think burnout happens when you put your standards higher than you can achieve. But there are different kind of standards.
* You can burnout when you work harder than you can (physically and emotionally).
* You can burnout when your social standard is different than your company's.
* You can burnout when your standard is pleasing the user while your company's standard is pleasing the shareholders.
* You can burn out when you think you are not replaceable and the company will collapse without you (fact: it won't).
* And so on...
I never had a burnout but I suffered from extreme fatigue because I was sitting all day. I got all kinds of physical and emotional problems. So I started to burn out. And what scared me most was that working out at the end of the day doesn't help much when you are sitting still 10 hours in a row.
So I had the luck that I could change jobs. Maybe you are also lucky and can find something that will help you change the problem that burns you out.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoYou can burn out if your authority doesn't match your responsibility. (That is, if your company considers you responsible for making X happen, but the things that they allow you to do don't allow you to actually make X happen.)
- yeukhon 10y agoThat's pretty much sums up (latter).
- yeukhon 10y agoThank you. It's exactly what I am doing.