Nah, you'd love having me out there.

I reluctantly joined facebook last year so I can see my son's hockey games live streamed , that is the only thing I use it for( ithink my brother is the only friend request I accepted) , I don't read twitter or any other social media platforms and CP is the only forum I look at, do I miss out or fall behind news wise maybe but long term I think I am better for it.

All the time (well, sometimes)

Ask me anything.

I've tried drugs, drinking, degenerate gambling, traveling... any vice known to man.

We work too much in this country. We weren't put here to slave away.

I actually find CP to be completely fine, and I don't consider this form of social media to be of negative impact on myself personally. I just don't let anything said on here effect how I think of things. Ya'll are a great form of entertainment and sometimes even very helpful with real life situations.

It can be harsh here sometimes. There is no PC in place here. But, agreed its a different vibe than other social media.

I make it work here because I don't have any alter-ego or any shit. I'm just me. (Yes I really do hate Squirmin Herman Mother****ing Sack of **** Edwards)

I don't have much time for much else, so that's why it works for me. I stay out of the full-on fights and try to keep my filter on.

You also hate those cheatin’ d0nks too!!

All I have is sarcasm.

You have to be who you are on here. Sure you can fudge a little, withhold some stuff but your personality, you cant hide. Just be who you are. None of us will ever be president. No one is going to look at our posts 15 years in the future and see if we are qualified for office.

That would be a resounding NO in my case. ROFL

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I don't know about burn out but here I am at my 19th nervous breakdown

Saw a school board member today. Told her what happened last year and I was deciding if I wanted to continue as a teacher.

Even through a mask-I could tell she was stunned.

Burnout might just come down to needing a relaxation of the mind. I know I made my post over a week ago now about closing down my social medias and what's funny in my case I've began getting texted more by the girls that are actually interested in seeing me. Because my life is no longer easily accessible they wanna know what i'm up to and therefore have initiated contact more. Now aside from that, I've been going to my gym and doing two-a-days to keep my mind occupied and I recently purchased a microphone set to begin doing my own podcast work with a couple of my best friends.

My point is, you gotta block out the noise. Social media is noise and nonsense. I do still have twitter to keep up with sports news, but otherwise just living a tad more simplistically can help free your mind and that whole burnout thing eventually evades. Use your mental energy towards things that can be of value to your life, and by life I mean your actual physical life.

And stay out of the AOL chatrooms Mecca.

Listen to the B-52's. Guaranteed to cheer you up! :thumb: http://youtu.be/4WSenc2Z5OA

After reading all these responses I'm burnt out! ROFL

I give you a hard time, but it’s all love at the end of the day man. Just now seeing this, but I understand what you’re going through. Just keep your head up and keep moving forward.

“This shall pass too”

I hate my life right now.

Passed over for a promotion for the 2nd time this year. Help me.

Not sure what you do but clearly need to try something to make you standout from others.

Or move on. If possible.

I've been there. Got passed over for promotion after promotion because I wasn't a 'bro' and did my work at work, so I got fed up and just quit.

It was a great decision.

Every step up in my career, I had to go to another company. Businesses, especially bigger businesses want workers who are productive to stay in their position. They are relucant to move you out of that position.


Your going to have to be prepared to move on. Get another job. If you want to stay, force their hand and tell them you want the promotion you've earned or your gone.

This X 1,000. After 36 years at the same corporation I'm fixing to change things in my life way up. Scary and exciting all at once. My father, who is the person that instilled my work ethic and loyalty, thinks I'm making a huge mistake and repeatedly tells me just to stick it out. Although i respect him and understand where he is coming from i just can't do it anymore. Sorry Pops, wish me luck.

I retired at 58 years old, I am now 65, it's kind of boring playing golf, bass fishing, driving my old c5 around and sleeping until I want to get up.

It's not all what it's cracked up to be.

out.

Thats a risk im willing to take

I have now thanks to this thread.

This
and this


most of the time the quickest way to get a salary and/or title increase is to change companies

Or threaten to change companies. ;)

I see this every day. I've passed up several gigs because I refuse to let "work" become "life".

There's a lot of people above me that make A LOT of money but they have no time to spend it, no one left to spend it with/on, and so on.

At some point one has to ask what they want out of life and what that means for work. I haven't experienced any burnout since I finally decided that work=work and nothing more.

22 years ago (youngish punk, just built a new house-as in GC not "had built for me", kids...........) I was making the guy I worked for serious bank. I was making really really good coin as well.

I told him I wanted to be a shareholder. He told me "you do what you do and I do what I do, nothing more is available right now". I got up, told him thanks (I was serious because I needed that clarification). 4 months later I took another sales guy with me, our lead operations guy and started the company we have today. We were backed by (at the time) a 90 year old company in Portland of which I am now one of the owners.

I laid in bed at night for several weeks saying wtf did I just do. My wife told me to grow some stones and get on with it. It is meant to be.


So I guess my point is this- You know your worth. If you are worth it, grow some stones and get on with it.

You have a job in 2020. Consider yourself blessed.

Good, relevant article from HBR... https://hbr.org/2016/06/resilience-i...how-you-endure

I agree. I work like that now because I choose to. Mine is self driven and dictated to advance myself, so I can eventually reach a point where I can work less and my family is secure. Eventually retire early enough to work not at all.

If that's not what you're shooting for then it's time for some reflection because yeah, life is not work.

I'm almost 50. I make enough money that we can save for retirement and have some fun like vacations and such. I will probably be able to retire at 60 if all goes well. I can't ask for much more than that. I enjoy my free time and my family too much to push for more professionally.

:thumb:

Yes burned out in 2018 took time off work saw a counselor which helped some she helped me understand depression and anxiety. I think what helped the most was the prozac they finally put me on. Tried several different drugs before that but that is what works. Still see Dr every 90 days but doing much better. Didn't hate my job had a good one but a demanding job got to where I wouldn't go in, would pretty much get sick just thinking about going to work. Finally quit and felt better immediately I now have a part time job that pays about 1/3 of what I used to make but I don't feel like shit before I have to go work. Miss the $$ but not the job and can live on what I make as we are responsible with our $$ and wife has a decent job.

I was not to proud to ask for help!! If you need help go get it as that is what Doctors are for!! If your married and your wife supports you that is a big plus!!

just took my BP 124/80

NORMAL!!!!!

Not getting to go fishing this year has really bummed me out and I have to work extra to get my van fixed. I'm not as motivated as I was before Summer 2020. It's getting hard to want to do anything really because everything cost money to do anything. SO work work work that's all there is to do.

Curious if working from home, unemployment, increased employment, etc. through Covid has helped anyone's work mentality.

WFH has been great. The time I spent in traffic hating life is now spent working out, studying and spending time with my daughter.

Sad that most companies are going back to normal office life. Those jobs will always be less desirable for me now.

Hate hate hate my job.. unfortunately, all my experience is in a discipline I hate



Literally can’t stand anyone I work with. Medium company, family company with rampant nepotism and incompetence


Most days I wish I could just go mow lawns for a living. Hard to get a good nights rest when you dread the next day.

I don't like WFH. I have the option of doing it with a 10% pay cut. But I'm older and have lived my entire life in a social working environment and choose not to.

Without saying why, I'm the happiest person in the world right now.

Been in a similar situation when I was young and dumb.

My advice is don't put out work you can't be proud of. You can't control a ****ton of shit that affects your life. All you have is what you can control, and that's your work product. If you put out shitty work product, you'll just feel shittier about the whole thing, and you'll likely carry regret.

If you want to farm, I can get you 3000 hours. But virtually nobody wants that.

I was there, although, my hatred was with the company and not the people I worked with. I enjoyed the people, but the organization was pure shit. Anyone outside of my immediate circle or managers more than 2 levels up didnt GAF about anyone below them. Policies were arbitrary and changed at a whim...and could change daily based upon someone's mood somewhere.

I had put in almost 25 years with this organization in various forms over the years but the last 3-4 years were the worst. I resigned myself to just waiting until they cut me for the severance, which they did late last year. The severance is very generous so I guess it was worth the pain and burnout.

Sat out my 60 day period and found another job and started the week after my 60 days was up. It's been more work/hours at the beginning as it's a new startup project, but it's been much more rewarding and I have more control over my work and the project as a leader. I'm very, very fortunate and extremely happy to be rid of that old place.

^all of this