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I also no longer feel the need to be validated by the work that I do but really by how I feel and I feel good.
Personally I have finally come to terms with the fact that I am burnt out. This post is inspiring and I appreciate the author's honesty about his struggles. I hope soon I can take well well needed rest to recharge, and hopefully feel better about my life.
I hope this post will inspire also me somehow.
But in the meantime - I hope you'll beat it fast.
What are your other favorites that might help me fill the gap?
Personally I have finally come to terms with the fact that I am burnt out. This post is inspiring and I appreciate the author's honesty about his struggles. I hope soon I can take well well needed rest to recharge, and hopefully feel better about my life.
I'm about to read it, just wanted to glance at the comments first. Man, I know your feel. It was end of last week when I realized I'm facing burnout. I've no idea what to do with it. Ideally I know that break would be good but yeah, I need to work because I like not to starve :/ I hope this post will inspire also me somehow. But in the meantime - I hope you'll beat it fast.
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We aren't crabs in a pot. Someone else doing a good thing does not make your life worse. You can simultaneously strive for making your own life better and celebrate someone else doing something healthy for themselves.
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> While I respect Kottke… And than showing utmost disrespect by gaslighting and diminishing their described experience/state of mind. Do you really think these "I'm not a... but' or" While I... but" comments add positively to the discussion? Why not accept that the author is in the described state, acknowledge what you read and then, without snark, write that you wished you would be able to have a sabbatical from you…
I think they pointed out that anything you say before the ‘but’ is invalidated, and what you really mean comes after.
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And what would be wrong with that?
That’s asinine. The fact that someone thinks you could just not have a 9-5 job or bills to pay? Sure, I’ll just pull myself up by my bootstraps and suddenly not worry about a job or bills. Thanks, I’ll just let them eat cake instead!
You think there are no alternatives to 9-5 jobs? No people who work different shifts, no people who work 12hr days then take long days off? No people who work 9 months on / 3 months off? No people who work and live cheap while saving then spend the savings on long holidays because they want to? No people who have spent years building passive income sources so that they can one day take long breaks from working? No people who quit their jobs to live in the overdraft of their bank account?
And on top of that you think a sarcastic one-line complaint is a good contribution to the thread?
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> While I respect Kottke… And than showing utmost disrespect by gaslighting and diminishing their described experience/state of mind. Do you really think these "I'm not a... but' or" While I... but" comments add positively to the discussion? Why not accept that the author is in the described state, acknowledge what you read and then, without snark, write that you wished you would be able to have a sabbatical from you…
Wasn’t there a post on here recently from a wise old man? I think they pointed out that anything you say before the ‘but’ is invalidated, and what you really mean comes after.