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You make an interesting point and it makes me think about what might be driving the behavior of people not taking extended time off, if by many measures they sh
by orev 4y ago
You make an interesting point and it makes me think about what might be driving the behavior of people not taking extended time off, if by many measures they should be able to?
My vote is for the industry itself that’s driving burnout; not any specific job. One can only go through so many cycles of everyone reinventing the same wheel and having to relearn all one’s skills before just getting completely tired of the uselessness of it all.
Another framework. Another platform. Another language. Many with no real reason to exist other than it just happened to catch on and became the trendy thing.
You can love and be good at technology, and just get exhausted from the useless churn.
- 0_____0 4y agoI got tired in hardware development. It's a little different than software because the tech doesn't change the way frameworks do, but 95% of the effort I have spent in the last decade has been for naught. Well funded startups that got bought by big companies, the designs shelved... I made good money but I am unwilling to solve problems, even fun ones, if my work is just going to end up in the trash. Part of that is the nature of startup tech, some of it is the nature of R&D generally. I'm currently taking my own advice and fucking off for the summer, about to start a 3000 mile mountain bike tour in a couple weeks. I don't know whether I'll return to engineering. There are infinite ways of living a human life on this planet and I intend to explore some more of them before deciding that an engineering career is really the one that will make me happy.