Burnout is brutal. I dug into people's experience of it on Twitter in 2019: https://twitter.com/gnat/status/1082537720335888384 https://twitter.com/gnat/status/

Burnout is brutal. I dug into people's experience of it on Twitter in 2019: https://twitter.com/gnat/status/1082537720335888384 https://twitter.com/gnat/status/1082537720335888384 A recurring pattern that I saw was that the pressure of responsibility for others had to be lifted for healing to happen. Some people never returned to a job with responsibility for others -- one friend resigned as team lead and now works as a sole contributor, leaves at 5, and spends time with his family. Responsibility was the thing that had disproportionate weight and any responsibility for others was too much. If you do get back into coding, you should interview carefully. Plenty of programming jobs these days are collaborative and meeting-filled. If meetings and social ambiguity have disproportionate crushing weight for you, then you'll need to find a programming job without those. Not to say you can't find a place you will thrive in, but it'll take more of a filter than "programming" to get it. Good luck!