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I've been burned out for decades. I deal with it by not making work my priority. I do solid work, put in my 40 hours a week, and maintain an Iron Curtain betwee
by EddieDante 4y ago
I've been burned out for decades. I deal with it by not making work my priority. I do solid work, put in my 40 hours a week, and maintain an Iron Curtain between work and the rest of my life. And I tell other people that careers are for suckers when they make the mistake of asking me for advice.
- frozencell 4y agoAren't you French?
- EddieDante 4y agoThat's just my handle.
- samstave 4y agoLe Handel.
- dirtybirdnj 4y agoHow do you find work that you can be emotionally de-vested in? I find it extremely difficult to stay engaged with work I don't care about, this creates a negative feedback loop that's the kiss of death for me at any job.
- SoftTalker 4y agoIt's OK to care about your work, just put limits on it to allow time for other things in your life.
- EddieDante 4y ago> How do you find work that you can be emotionally de-vested in? You know the "alienation" Marx and Engels write about in the Communist Manifesto and Capital? I lean into that shit like a motocross racer doing a tight turn. I'll take just about any kind of paying work as long as it's not for the military or law enforcement, but otherwise I simply don't give a shit. I don't get emotionally involved with my code any more than I did with the toilets I used to clean when I worked as a supermarket janitor to help pay for college. Either way I'm mainly just dealing with other people's shit.
- dirtybirdnj 4y ago> I don't get emotionally involved with my code any more than I did with the toilets I used to clean when I worked as a supermarket janitor to help pay for college. I am genuinely in awe of this. I've made so much of my personality caring about my work that it's hard to even conceive of not caring about what I do. Every job or success has been built upon previous jobs... the idea of a ladder moving up. I've never once thought about it like a horizontal plane with multiple doors all at the same level. I'm jealous of your thinking and I wish I could care less about what I spend my time on. I hope to find a healthier balance closer to your viewpoint.
- worker_person 4y agoMaybe I'm missing something. But this feels less like burn out, and more like a very healthy work / life balance to me.
- EddieDante 4y agoMaybe, but the people around me are overfond of false dichotomies and excluded middles. They think that if you aren't gung ho and giving 110% on a 996 schedule, you must not be passionate about your work. Which I'm not. I'm passionate about having food, shelter, water, electricity, internet access, and keeping my wife happy. However, that all costs money, and we don't live in a fully automated luxury communist utopia so I've got to work for a living.