I have burned out before. I dealt with it with a combination of vacation (only had 2 weeks) and just slugging through the days until it got better. My code wa

I have burned out before. I dealt with it with a combination of vacation (only had 2 weeks) and just slugging through the days until it got better. My code was crap during that time and everything suffered for it. At that company, they had burned out every single developer they had ever had. I signed on as a junior programmer and ended up doing senior level things in the first month... Alone. No help. (They did give me amazing raises to compensate for this, so I'm not complaining.) But eventually, they managed to burn me out, too. But instead of quitting, I just kept at it. The result is that I'm now much less likely to burn out again because I have seen what it's like to code-like-a-crazy-man, and code-like-a-depressed-monkey. And I can balance the 2 enough to make sure I never hit either extreme again.