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I find that wasting my time is a larger annoyance than monetary compensation. As I get older I have less tolerance for meaningless meetings and the requirement

I find that wasting my time is a larger annoyance than monetary compensation. As I get older I have less tolerance for meaningless meetings and the requirement to work specific hours or be in a physical office for a client just because it makes a manager feel better.

mkramlich 15y ago
Agreed. Increasingly I want to focus my work experience down to the exchange: "get things done (well) -> get paid (well)".
gnosis 15y ago
If you call being sick of meetings and having to come in at specific times "burnout", you have a very mild case of it. Burnout started for me when I noticed that my interests weren't aligned with my company's interests.. or with any company's interests.. or even with my profession's interests. Coding became boring. So I switched to doing sysadmin. Then sysadmin stuff became boring. Then technology in general became boring. I just didn't care to learn another stupid language or configuration syntax for products I didn't care about and companies whose success or failure I couldn't give two shits about. I didn't care about the clients. Or the users. Or my coworkers. Not caring. That's a big part of it. So's lacking interest. At times I'd stop caring about anything. Other times I'd care about things, but they weren't things having anything to do with work. Everything to do with work became a severe chore at best, and a complete nightmare at worst. It all seemed so fake and full of bullshit -- from the company's stupid pep talks or fake parties and dinners where everyone pretended to like each other and kissed up to their bosses. When I finally quit it felt like such a relief. Quitting days were some of the happiest days of my life. I did that a lot. That's burnout.
- mmcconnell1618 15y ago
  I'm not saying that being annoyed at meeting == burnout. I'm saying that it is a contributing factor just like resentment over unequal compensation, etc.
  - gnosis 15y ago
    Sure. It all comes down to having a job you don't want to do, for one reason or another, but are nevertheless doing. The more you don't want to do that job, the less you want to be there, and the longer you stay anyway, the more burnt out you'll be. Many factors can contribute to this, including relationships you have with the people at the company, your feelings towards them, your job, and the company, and how you feel you and others at the company are treated.

mkramlich 15y ago

Agreed. Increasingly I want to focus my work experience down to the exchange: "get things done (well) -> get paid (well)".

gnosis 15y ago

If you call being sick of meetings and having to come in at specific times "burnout", you have a very mild case of it. Burnout started for me when I noticed that my interests weren't aligned with my company's interests.. or with any company's interests.. or even with my profession's interests. Coding became boring. So I switched to doing sysadmin. Then sysadmin stuff became boring. Then technology in general became boring. I just didn't care to learn another stupid language or configuration syntax for products I didn't care about and companies whose success or failure I couldn't give two shits about. I didn't care about the clients. Or the users. Or my coworkers. Not caring. That's a big part of it. So's lacking interest. At times I'd stop caring about anything. Other times I'd care about things, but they weren't things having anything to do with work. Everything to do with work became a severe chore at best, and a complete nightmare at worst. It all seemed so fake and full of bullshit -- from the company's stupid pep talks or fake parties and dinners where everyone pretended to like each other and kissed up to their bosses. When I finally quit it felt like such a relief. Quitting days were some of the happiest days of my life. I did that a lot. That's burnout.

mmcconnell1618 15y ago
I'm not saying that being annoyed at meeting == burnout. I'm saying that it is a contributing factor just like resentment over unequal compensation, etc.
- gnosis 15y ago
  Sure. It all comes down to having a job you don't want to do, for one reason or another, but are nevertheless doing. The more you don't want to do that job, the less you want to be there, and the longer you stay anyway, the more burnt out you'll be. Many factors can contribute to this, including relationships you have with the people at the company, your feelings towards them, your job, and the company, and how you feel you and others at the company are treated.