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Re:Ask HN: What's your spectacular burnout story? by sgt101 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @04:14PM (#15055331)
Of course, I am not an MD and I know nothing of medicine, however I think it's not unreasonable to imagine that the sort of episode you describe could have ended with a crippling stroke or even more awful consequences.

If you had ended up permanently blind, or in a chair, would you have had any regrets?

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Re:Ask HN: What's your spectacular burnout story? by burnout445 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @06:09PM (#15055895)
Yeah of course - that would have not been ideal. I know myself though (and know field of the niche products I work on) and I was just going to keep pushing myself as hard as possible until something like that happened.

I'm glad everything worked out and wish it happened a different way but if I didn't hit that burn out then I'm sure it would have ended up much worse down the line.

At the very least now I have a better idea how/when to tell future bosses to go fuck themselves :)

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