>Do other non-software professions go through burnout? Alternatively, is software engineering more prone to burnout? Oooooh boy you should look into medicine.

>Do other non-software professions go through burnout? Alternatively, is software engineering more prone to burnout? Oooooh boy you should look into medicine. This is a profession that has been dealing with insane burnout since before software existed and is only recently getting any amount of attention from within the community. (Think 80+ hour surgical residency for 8 years with the self-perpetuating cycle of "that's what I had to do so I make these residents do it too" logic of hazing) I was previously pre-med and at one of my med school interviews (when the school was bragging about their mental health resources) they mentioned a story of a physician who played candy crush every morning before he got out of bed "just so that he could have one win for the day."