I've started to be able to sense it, when i feel that burnout creeping up, and i know i need to just stop and take a vacation asap. I can try to push it a coup

I've started to be able to sense it, when i feel that burnout creeping up, and i know i need to just stop and take a vacation asap. I can try to push it a couple more weeks, but then those couple of weeks will basically be at like half productivity. So from a cold hard company numbers standpoint, they'd rather i took my vacation right away, be off for 2 weeks, and then be back to full productivity when i get back. Rather than, say, work at half productivity for a month, and then take a 2 week vacation, which adds up to having "lost" ~4 weeks of productivity. From your team perspective, you need to take vacations yourself to set the standard for others, that it's ok for them to take vacation regularly, otherwise they'll start forcing themselves and burn out and feel miserable the same way you are. You can also think of it from the extreme ends, would your company be happier if you pushed yourself for a couple more months until you completely burned out and quit, or would they rather you took vacation for multiple months and then continued working at the company afterwards. I would imagine most companies would choose the later, unless you worked at, say, a triple-A gaming studio, and then they wanted you to burn yourself out until the shipping deadline, and then they want you to quit so they don't need to pay you a severance package.