From experience I can say the burn out doesn't start at 26. If you've been an academic high achiever all your life burnout is real and the fuse is probably lit

From experience I can say the burn out doesn't start at 26. If you've been an academic high achiever all your life burnout is real and the fuse is probably lit when you're a preteen. Then you graduate, get your first real job and the last bit of fuel is finally extinguished. In my consort, if you didn't follow the "program" you were written off as a lazy slacker.