I burned out like 15 years ago. I was lucky that I had money to quit working completely for about a year and go backpacking. When I started again, I did so in

I burned out like 15 years ago. I was lucky that I had money to quit working completely for about a year and go backpacking. When I started again, I did so in a different company but in the same field. The biggest change I made and which I think was key to find a balance was to enforce boundaries. Before I had a job that had lots of midnight on-call wake ups and no set hours. In the new place I forced myself to show up at the office at 9am so I could walk out at 5pm without anyone having anything to grumble about. This was not the norm in the company but as I started doing that from day one, it was accepted. Whenever anyone asked me to stay late I referred them to my manager for them to approve paid overtime. Most of the time the discussion stopped there, but there were a few times when they decided to pay. It's incredible how much time for yourself and friends-family is left over when you clock-off at 5pm always.