burnout

Do not keep satisfied with a toxic situation, that's a fast-lane to burnout.

Some context: my most recent experience with burnout was about a year ago.

For me the burnout cycle ended after several conversations with the company's founders.

That's a pretty radical step, but choosing burnout is a much worse step.

I think that's because what causes burnout (how to de-stress) is a very personal thing, something that differs person to person.

They were very clear that employee health is paramount to the company's success and continue to work on mitigating the root causes of engineer burnout.

I -and others in tech that I know- have never been required to work anywhere near point of burnout, let alone breakdown.

I had a burnout in 2006, took me the best part of a year to recover, and that was actually quite hard.

I left the place right before Y2K, a flaming wreck of burnout, dead set on going to college for a CS degree.

I had a similar experience of burnout in a stressful startup environment.

How-to-beat-burnout posts often have different answers.

But to start a project again, I failed with a burnout 20 years ago, and to code it with actual technology, was the biggest personal challenge.

And it's not just the "monotonic" part that's questionable -- things like burnout and the traditional "mid-life crisis" and mental breakdowns hint that we're not even particularly continuous.

"Normal" people as contrasted with "burned out" or "on the road to burnout" people.

Burnout manifests itself much quicker and continues to linger even longer when our health is neglected.

Burnout is an issue all over the industry.