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Your health and wellbeing has to be your number 1 priority, above all else. I would tell your employer that you're suffering from extreme burnout both personal
by elliottinvent 8y ago
Your health and wellbeing has to be your number 1 priority, above all else.
I would tell your employer that you're suffering from extreme burnout both personally and professionally as you've described, ideally with HR involved as @exolymph suggested.
Explain that it's effecting the quality of your work (they may have already noticed) and they should hopefully appreciate your honesty. They should recognise the commercial benefit of giving you a break so that you can come back much more productive.
If they don't support you during a difficult time and force you out then you will be better off with a different employer in the long run anyway.
Talk with friends and family. This will pass and you will get through it. Good luck.
- borplk 8y ago> I would tell your employer that you're suffering from extreme burnout both personally and professionally as you've described, ideally with HR involved as @exolymph suggested. This is IMHO naive and bad advice in the majority of cases. Especially so when he's a remote contractor. And especially so when the company is not a reputable established company with deep pockets and corporate machinery like Google/Microsoft/etc. Those companies have processes to deal and help with these cases (and even they don't really). But at the average startup (have to ship or almost going bankrupt, go figure the rest) two bros will have a quick chat and you get a "sorry ... bye" email next week.