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No, 100% no. Burnout is the internalization of the belief the work is endless, pointless, and certainly not worth your effort. Burnout is when one's investment
by bsenftner 4y ago
No, 100% no. Burnout is the internalization of the belief the work is endless, pointless, and certainly not worth your effort. Burnout is when one's investment is realized to be a failed commitment of one's time, one's energy, one's finite life.
- melech_ric 4y agoI am pretty sure I burned out in 2017. It has been a slow crawl back to normalcy. The real trouble is that there is no end to the demands that a business will make on a person. A business can't halt and wait for your burnout to subside. A business needs to push the next widget out - and if you can't help with that then someone else will. This is directly at odds with recovery. There's never enough time to feel proud and connected to your work. Just the next task.
- bsenftner 4y agoI've been coding professionally since '82 and am in the tail end of my 5th career burnout. The underlying issue is our industry is an ocean of poor communicators, who routinely ignore signals until a tsunami hits.