Re:Minds Turned to Ash: Burnout is more than working too hard
by tripzilch on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:44PM
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> been through burnout several times
Wait--what?! How?
I don't want to discount your story or make light of it, but are you sure you've been "through" it? Maybe you meant to say you have closely avoided actual burnout several times?
You don't go "through" it without traumatic damage. The title doesn't say "minds turned to ash" for nothing.
I can't imagine anybody going through burnout twice, you have to be extremely unlucky AND stupid because the trauma turns up the alarm bells to eleven if you even get close to it (which is also lot sooner than before). This is some existential dread level of avoidance we're talking about here, the kind you need immense willpower to overcome. I'd do anything to avoid having to go through that again (maybe if I had children).
Wait--what?! How?
I don't want to discount your story or make light of it, but are you sure you've been "through" it? Maybe you meant to say you have closely avoided actual burnout several times?
You don't go "through" it without traumatic damage. The title doesn't say "minds turned to ash" for nothing.
I can't imagine anybody going through burnout twice, you have to be extremely unlucky AND stupid because the trauma turns up the alarm bells to eleven if you even get close to it (which is also lot sooner than before). This is some existential dread level of avoidance we're talking about here, the kind you need immense willpower to overcome. I'd do anything to avoid having to go through that again (maybe if I had children).