Developer Burnout Debate
Discussions revolve around identifying and debating burnout versus boredom or boreout in tech careers, sharing personal experiences, causes like frustration or workload, and recovery strategies.
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Understand burnout, how to avoid it, and what to do when it strikes.
You're burned out. Take a break and cultivate your other interests.
why do you assume burnout by default?
That's not burnout. He's doing the correct thing, where your jobs sucks is time to try a different thing. Good luck !
Burnout here years ago. Accompanying depression and anxiety disorders.It's not about what you actually do or don't do, it's more about how you manage your life and what your view of everything is. I haven't really been the hardest working or the most productive.I feel like people who say that, it's like a way to compensate for that failure by projecting an image of super hard working people who have reached exhaustion or great competitive athletes who have reached
Burnout is not working towards your purpose.
Related "Burnout Is Real" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27630468
This sounds like a detailed account of burnout. Take some time away from it all and find your thunder and curiosity again?
No, trust me, it is burnout and working too much for too little gain.
Burnout is this weird concept that developers have invented to describe "I can't be bothered to keep going"You are not serious, or you haven't been through a burnout. A burnout is probably not due to a lot of work, but to bad conditions/results/consequences. You can get burnt out without working (or working too little), and burn out is more than "I can't keep going". It's a mind disturbing thing and can be quite serious and lead to a depression.