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This all rings very familiar - I left my business in 2016 as I was absolutely disintegrating, and my business “partner” wasn’t prepared for me to take six months off to recover, as it would mean him stepping up to the mark and dealing with the nightmare fuel I spent my days on. Anyway. Five years on, haven’t worked since other than very lightweight consultancy. Live in the woods. Still wake up at 0430 every morning i…
Have you had therapy?
Jobs at larger, more stable corporations can still take a lot out of you! Even if it pales in comparison to the insanity of startup life. For myself: the drive, and the creativity, only come back if I stop working for an extended period of time (weeks). I need a lot of idle time and some boredom before I feel creative again, let alone want to touch a keyboard, but if I wait long enough it always happens. I promise yo…
Boredom is a totally underestimated and undervalued mental state these days. IMO it's quite difficult to become bored these days with all the distractions of the Internet. Many great thinkers went to rural "boredom resorts" to let their ideas thrive after they got stimuli from crowded cities.
I've had a minor burnout 4 years ago where i dropped my side projects. I changed jobs and have been working the longest time on my current side project. One of the most important things is that I don't need to do it today. I can have a week of leave from my side projects if i want. It's working on it consistently that works, without overworking myselve. Question is: what do you care about? Is it about the technology…
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But not all burn outs are the same. PTSD level burn outs do, but you also have other types that aren’t at that level. As always the answer is “it depends” and get professional help.
Perhaps we should have different words for “I am maybe feeling a bit tired of doing the same thing every day” and “my brain is physically damaged from years of relentless 24/7 stress to the extent that basic functions like sleep elude me”.
It’s a great big world outside of software/tech.
I have loads of side projects, er, hobbies that have nothing to do with software/tech/startups.
Many of them are best done outside.
I joke that one of my hobbies actually repels tech.
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She* :) And yeah - very powerful piece of writing. She's a published fantasy author and I'm going to try one of her novels ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77197.Assassin_s_Apprent... )
Best thing I've ever read. Based on the title, "Assassin's Apprentice", I would never have picked it up. It's on the "realism" side of fantasy. The protagonist is not having a good time, at all. Hobb excels at writing about communities.
Was tempted to make a throwaway account for this, but what the hell, burnout is really nothing to be ashamed of. I'm in a somewhat similar situation to you, but replace the 3 years with 10 years. I had many periods of 'minor' burnout along the way that I ignored or ploughed through, which in hindsight was a pretty big mistake. Around August last year I just couldn't continue. I wasn't sleeping, I was frequently run d…
With hindsight, do you think you could have avoided your burnout? Was it due to long hours? The type of work? Something else?
Was tempted to make a throwaway account for this, but what the hell, burnout is really nothing to be ashamed of. I'm in a somewhat similar situation to you, but replace the 3 years with 10 years. I had many periods of 'minor' burnout along the way that I ignored or ploughed through, which in hindsight was a pretty big mistake. Around August last year I just couldn't continue. I wasn't sleeping, I was frequently run d…
This all rings very familiar - I left my business in 2016 as I was absolutely disintegrating, and my business “partner” wasn’t prepared for me to take six months off to recover, as it would mean him stepping up to the mark and dealing with the nightmare fuel I spent my days on. Anyway. Five years on, haven’t worked since other than very lightweight consultancy. Live in the woods. Still wake up at 0430 every morning i…