Anyone ever experience burnout?

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by BDj23

I hate my life right now.

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

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.

[MahiMike]

Originally Posted by BDj23

I hate my life right now.

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

You have a job in 2020. Consider yourself blessed.

[bdj23]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

You have a job in 2020. Consider yourself blessed.

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

[KCbroncoHATER]

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.

[bdj23]

Originally Posted by KCbroncoHATER

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

[SuperBowl4]

I have now thanks to this thread.

[Bearcat]

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

Based on our current research, we have come to realize that the problem is not our hectic schedule or the plane travel itself; the problem comes from a misunderstanding of what it means to be resilient, and the resulting impact of overworking.

...

We often take a militaristic, “tough” approach to resilience and grit. We imagine a Marine slogging through the mud, a boxer going one more round, or a football player picking himself up off the turf for one more play. We believe that the longer we tough it out, the tougher we are, and therefore the more successful we will be. However, this entire conception is scientifically inaccurate.

The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.

The misconception of resilience is often bred from an early age. Parents trying to teach their children resilience might celebrate a high school student staying up until 3AM to finish a science fair project. What a distortion of resilience! A resilient child is a well-rested one. When an exhausted student goes to school, he risks hurting everyone on the road with his impaired driving; he doesn’t have the cognitive resources to do well on his English test; he has lower self-control with his friends; and at home, he is moody with his parents. Overwork and exhaustion are the opposite of resilience. And the bad habits we learn when we’re young only magnify when we hit the workforce.

[displacedinMN]

just took my BP 124/80

NORMAL!!!!!

[eDave]

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

[BryanBusby]

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.

[Dayze]

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.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Dayze

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.

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.

[KCTitus]

Originally Posted by Dayze

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 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.

[mlyonsd]

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.