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Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

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Re: Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

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Post by meaydinli »

tenebrisalietum wrote: post #35
meaydinli wrote: post #33

I am going through this right now. I have constant tension headaches and doc says I should stay away from stress, stress triggers and chocolate/coffee/etc. How am I supposed to do that with work/life/COVID and everything 2020? I have a big project on me, and there is no way I can get the rest I need to recover properly. I took 2 days off, and my colleagues are rallying to help as much as they can, but some of the inf…

> but some of the info is silo'd on me What's preventing you from sharing this information or making it accessible to your other colleagues?

Thank you, that is a good question. I haven't thought of it from that POV. Nothing is preventing me aside from my work-load, and the feeling that I am letting everybody down every second this project is further delayed.

Re: Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

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Post by dasKrokodil »

sleepysysadmin wrote: post #16
kaybe wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A fundamental law that governments should have is that your employer cannot harm your health. A small note: Germany does have a law like this. (I cannot find anything about it in English though.) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

>A small note: Germany does have a law like this. (I cannot find anything about it in English though.) The more I know about Germany's government the more I like about it.

There have been worse German governments than the current one.

Re: Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

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Post by mancerayder »

tachyonbeam wrote: post #44
NortySpock wrote: post #9

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Sure, if you can sleep.

For those of us who are working from home right now, sleeping is easier than ever.

Insomnia is pretty high on the list of pandemic lockdown issues at the moment, not to mention burnout symptoms.

Some people I know can sleep sitting on a plane, and others can scarcely sleep at night, horizontal, in a quiet room, on a soft bed.

Re: Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

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Post by 29athrowaway »

andrewem wrote: post #43
29athrowaway wrote: post #12

If you are burned out watch the talk "Pushing through friction" by Daniel Na. That talk inspired me and saved my job.

Can someone summarize the lessons or approach of that talk?

Day one mentality, how to deal with pushback and frustration, how to steer feedback towards constructive outcomes, how to succeed at a medium sized company, how to recognize and avoid normalization of deviance, why these things are important...

I don't know if I can summarize every excellent talk point in that presentation. The delivery is also great.

Kudos to Dan Na and Dan Luu for creating such great content.

Re: Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

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Post by mancerayder »

giantg2 wrote: post #40
rychco wrote: post #28

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Myself and most of my millennial peers feel this way exactly. Some are still hopeful that they'll own a home & raise a large family like their parents and grandparents did, but the rest of us aren't so sure.

I have a house and one kid. My wife wants another kid and complains that out house is too small (it's 1800 sqft). I hate my job but have no other options to support us. I honestly wonder how I did not listen to all the advice of other people about not getting married. Even at this same job I was much happier years ago. Part of that was because I hadn't been disillusioned yet, but I think part of it was also that I ha…

Is it allowed to tell wives who push husbands like that to get jobs themselves?

Is it really believed that housework is as hard and stressful as a tech job? I feel like we're not really supposed to voice that aloud, but how else is that to be challenged?

Re: Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

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Post by codecamper »

If you are reading this make sure you get a colonoscopy before 40, but also a 23andme to see if you have genetic susceptibility to colon cancer. If you have susceptibility, then don't smoke and a colonoscopy by 30 or smoke and a colonoscopy by 25. Don't drink a lot of sugary drinks either.

Writing this because too many young people are getting colon cancer & it's a completely preventable cancer.

Re: Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

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Post by nitrogen »

meaydinli wrote: post #41
tenebrisalietum wrote: post #35

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> but some of the info is silo'd on me What's preventing you from sharing this information or making it accessible to your other colleagues?

Thank you, that is a good question. I haven't thought of it from that POV. Nothing is preventing me aside from my work-load, and the feeling that I am letting everybody down every second this project is further delayed.

I'm paraphrasing a story whose origin I can't remember at the moment, but basically if you have 6 hours to chop down a very large tree, you should spend 5 of those hours sharpening your axe.
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