burnouts

So, the question is, how do we turn this to our advantage, rather than becoming information burnouts?

Small burnouts happen 1-2 times a year and involve about a week of doing nothing; large burnouts happen every 2-4 years and require a couple months.

Having said that most of the burnouts and hatred towards long working are caused due to resentment.

The infamous example are some of the hippy burnouts 'teaching English' in the cities along the coast.

And so the cycle continues, lots of ambitious young people enter the Industry while the burnouts throw in the towel.

That aside, my main cause of burnouts was working extremely hard on something and not finishing it, for a long time.

I've never met so many meth heads, heroin addicts and general burnouts in a higher concentration anywhere else.

You probably got tons of advice already, and from people who suffered from burnouts.

That's just necessary to counter those periods when you have to work around the clock and save yourself from more serious burnouts..

Frankly, i find thats actually the real reason for most of these burnouts/crashes.

I have experienced several burnouts and severe depressions; and at times I thought I had lost my faith in computers.

Give me a balanced employee over any one of these soon-to-be burnouts.

Burnouts are just horrendous, don't let yours become crippling depression.

My long view of every developer called a rock star, ninja, or other superlative around me: Burnouts, egotists, manic-depressives, except for a couple who healed and chilled out and became mature developers.