Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by stingraycharles on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:24AM (#33261774)

I don’t think it’s that black-and-white. Sometimes mistakes just happen anywhere, be it with management of developers or whatever. It’s also highly personal the types and amount of stress each individual can cope with. Burnout also happens across many professions, including the managers themselves.

How the manager responds to you having a burnout, however, is what’s important. A good manager will manage to accelerate your recovery, and come up with some plan to prevent it from happening again in the future.

I also believe that in the end, stress management is something that in the end, it’s best you take your own responsibility for. Learn to say no, learn to communicate about your limits, and learn to walk away / push back in case those limits are crossed.

I went through a few burn outs through various phases of my life, and almost always it was a combination of multiple things at once. While a manager can help, in the end I am responsible for my own mental well being.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by fendy3002 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:24PM (#33269083)

Well sorry it feels like that my message is blaming management for that. It kinda does (that it's one of their objective and failed to do so). But it's more to show that you're not care less about the work by taking care of yourself, because it's also in the interest of higher ups that you keep up being productive.

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