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If you can't afford to we have plenty of work to do and are hiring engineers - breck@pldb.com
Also, watch Caddyshack on repeat.
Can you afford a sabbatical? The term has roots in "seven", just like Sabbath, so with 14 years in the industry, you've skipped one. I think a solid half-year off every seven to ten years is an excellent practice for intellectually demanding labor. What makes it a sabbatical is that it's a change of pace which furthers your career. I'd love to take a sabbatical and just work on building stuff, personally: from solder…
A sabbatical sounds outrageously stressful to me. I'd immediately have significantly worse health insurance, I wouldn't be contributing to retirement, all the while I'd be draining away my safety net.
The idea that that some motivation circuit in your brain has fried. This happens when you spend too much time forcing yourself to roll the proverbial boulder up the hill just to see it come back down again. Your brain will heal itself, but you need to stop rolling that boulder first.
This advice is going to be hated by a lot of people but.. care less. You’re in an industry that values your skills and seems to always have demand. Whether or not that’s true in the future, it certainly is today , so the best thing you can do is put yourself first and worry less about work as a whole. Especially if it’s not your own company. Spend more time on you, on activities with friends and family, on hobbies. I…
They've failed to do so, now that you're taking care of yourself, consider that you're doing their job.
I was severely burned out in the past year and was very much in your situation few months ago. What helped me was reducing the scope of my work and taking the slow lane until I feel fine. Exercising, power naps and meditation also helped big time. I'm now in a much better shape and I would recommend it to anyone who's in the similar position.
Nope
I didn't heal from burnout. I went into mgmt. And found some room to grow there. Only for it to be taken away by higher up.
Now I am looking for career change.
Your high intensity feelings are built on three pillars: growth in your work; time with community; and work on your spiritual side.
If you are agnostic, spend time volunteering and seeing the fruits of your labor for spirituality.
If you cannot grow in your work, start looking for new kinds of work. Could be a new subject. And Or a youtube channel.
If you don't have a community in person, you are in trouble. Find someone. Anyone.
Upward trajectory in any of the three subjects lifts spirits.
And don't ever get so excited again that you give it more time than its worth. Coding has the tendency to do that.