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Yes that’s a key sign of burn out.
feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion;
increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and
reduced professional efficacy.
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupat...
Cut off from your work, don't even think about it, and start again.
When you get injured, you have to rest to recover. Burnout is kinda like that but there's no blood, scabs or physical pain you can identify.
Either find a way to re-adjust your workload, or find a new team that treats you with dignity and respect. As someone who is 4+ years into a burnout / recovery journey I can assure you that you will NEVER feel better in an environment that is hostile.
People are not honest about their negative behavior and if you try to confront abusers they will gaslight you into thinking you are the problem. If you are beaten down enough you will not be able to fight back against this even if you are smart enough to outwit them.
Watch peoples actions, try not to let their words distract you.
You are not lazy your heart and soul have been injured. Be compassionate to yourself or you will never heal.
Burnout reduces your maximum productivity.
Working to the full extent of this reduced capacity, even if it is a reduced output compared to your ideal capacity, is not laziness.
You are in fact working at 100% capacity ... which is hardly lazy.
Calling this laziness is just playing into the bullshit corporate power games that drive people to health failure.
Swapping teams can sometimes help for a little bit. But within a couple months it's back to the same burnout for me.
This is the same for me. My case was internal transferring from a engineering division with solid background to a newly created division of a different domain. Things turned out to be very different from what I had previous imagined. At least now I know that, at the end of the day, burnout can only be fixed by other means.
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This is the same for me. My case was internal transferring from a engineering division with solid background to a newly created division of a different domain. Things turned out to be very different from what I had previous imagined. At least now I know that, at the end of the day, burnout can only be fixed by other means.
I don't know. I'm convinced burnout can't be fixed at this point. Or maybe that's because this is regular burnout mixed with autistic burnout.
Sometimes it feels like the only real solution is to go back to school and get a degree in something that's not related to tech at all. Or go live in the woods.
I guess you need to really analyze what isn't working for you, and then try to fix that. In my case, I still like the programming/problem solving aspect, but I have no interest in scrum calls, sprint planning, elaborate frameworks and build pipelines, and all the other pervasive meta-work.
I think my burnout will persist until I can get away from that, possibly my changing career tracks altogether.
Was solved for me by getting fired, but I lucked out and my career improved significantly because of that event. Hope you find a path forward, you will survive.