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I'm surprised nobody has brought this up yet: Do you actually enjoy your current job? I find that if you don't really enjoy what you're doing, you end up livi
by skylark 11y ago
I'm surprised nobody has brought this up yet:
Do you actually enjoy your current job?
I find that if you don't really enjoy what you're doing, you end up living in this perpetual state of stress. And while that stress might be small at any one given time (minor annoyances here and there), because you're working for 8+ hours/day, it really adds up. Bodies aren't meant to be chronically subjected to cortisol (stress hormone).
I hate my current job, and I completely 100% empathize with the way you feel. I shifted my sleeping schedule so I could get 2-3 hours of work in before leaving for the day, but I just feel so beat down that I can't motivate myself to do anything.
I'm getting ready to leave so I decided to take the rest of my vacation time to prep for interviews. The difference is night and day - I've been studying 10+ hours/day without slowing down and I finally feel like I'm full of energy and hope again.
Maybe you just need a change of scenery.
- PopeOfNope 11y agoThis. Cortisol is the enemy, so anything you can do to bring down the cortisol will help decrease that tired feeling after 8 hours of work. That means doing three things programmers aren't well known for: eating well ("close to the farm" as my grandfather put it), exercising and sleeping at night. Vitamin C and Omega-3 are supplements that supposedly help with reducing cortisol in the short term.