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Even though you only did 2-3 hours of "real work", how much actual time investment was in your job? I don't see how somebody can burn out working just 2-3 hours
by lozenge 5y ago
Even though you only did 2-3 hours of "real work", how much actual time investment was in your job? I don't see how somebody can burn out working just 2-3 hours in a day. Maybe emotionally burnt out if you're a therapist or something, but not as a software engineer.
- alecbz 5y agoI guess it was more like that I got burnt out from other things and ended up only being able to get myself to work 2-3 hours. That said, I wasn't working especially long hours before, either. Maybe not 2-3 hours but still sub-8. The burnout definitely wasn't caused by long hours. 'Burnout' is a pretty ambiguous word IME but in its most commonly used sense it's pretty unrelated to hours worked. My favorite definition is that burnout is a "felt loss of impact and/or control".