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You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving

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Post by jen20 »

Aurornis wrote: post #36
StilesCrisis wrote: post #16

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Sadly, having more money doesn’t buy time. At least, not until you have enough money that you can hire assistants, but that’s pretty extreme.

I know a lot of people who DoorDash, have groceries delivered, have a house cleaner, and call a contractor for every small thing that needs to be done. They’re buying time. It’s never quite as much time as expected, though. Each is a marginal addition of free time that brings its own complications (like my friend who did an alarming amount of DoorDash and is now investing a lot of time into dropping weight and managi…

I was with you until...

> and call a contractor for every small thing that needs to be done. They’re buying time.

I _really_ wish I could find a contractor that didn't suck up more time than they save every single time!

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Post by dyauspitr »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #209

Please note that depression != burn-out. If you really can't get out of bed on a Monday morning, can't face the day, or muster any enthusiasm for anything, then you might not need a purpose, you might need medical assistance. Be kind to yourselves, people.

Medical assistance is not going to help when the thing that is making you depressed is the non negotiable 9-5 you have to do 5 days a week.

You’re not in the right field you say? Then you’ll be depressed from the poverty that comes from abysmal wages and the complete lack of job security.

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Post by tverbeure »

coip wrote: post #197
tverbeure wrote: post #65

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Or you totally love doing what you do at work and, after spending a week at the beach, you can’t wait to go back because you’re so close to solving that interesting problem you’ve been working on for more than a month.

Ah, to have any real amount of time to work on something. Sounds surreal.

It’s great!

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Post by nradov »

tehjoker wrote: post #168
nradov wrote: post #63

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By any objective metric the world is less broken than ever before. But people who want to be defeatist and cynical can always find a plausible sounding reason to justify their negativity regardless of the facts. I'm part of an older generation and not burnt out or existentially starving or whatever. And more importantly I'm not actually starving or dying of plague or being sent off to die for my king or any of the ot…

This is the take all the younger generations complain about. Boomers had it good, laid waste to the world and the international scene and wonder why everyone else is bitter.

The oldest Baby Boomers came of age in the late 1960s. What about the world is worse now than then? I'm not here to defend the Baby Boomers but let's have a sense of perspective.

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Post by unlikelymordant »

thanedar wrote: post #212
yoan9224 wrote: post #196

The premise is interesting but feels incomplete. The "Monday morning excitement test" doesn't account for the hedonic treadmill - even meaningful work becomes mundane once your brain adjusts to it. Also, many people are genuinely burnt out from overwork, not just existential malaise. When you're juggling demanding work, family responsibilities, and barely have time for basic self-care, the problem isn't finding your…

You get off the hedonic treadmill by getting into something deeper like politics. I do feel like I'm an example of someone who's juggled marriage, kids, startups, etc. where how I finally got a clean source of sustainable energy was having a part of my life to truly chase my highest potential. And to me that's politics, and specifically anticorruption and Positive Politics. Glad that the "go into politics" ideas piqu…

Would you mind expanding on what you do for anticorruption? It has been something ive been thinking about and wanting to get into lately. It seems like complete poison to democracy, and more should be done to bring it to light wherever it occurs

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Post by johnnyanmac »

I don't know if this article is for me:

>You got the great job. You built the startup. You took the vacations. But that’s not what you really needed.

I had none of these. I strive for them, but right now the market is rough and I have no time to rest. I think a lot of us are genuinely burnt out from losing the essentials these past few years.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

kevinh wrote: post #51
llmslave2 wrote: post #46

Maybe this hits for millennials and older but as a gen-z I think it's safe to say we're burnt out because everything we want is simply too expensive, our degrees are useless, dating and relationships have become damaged because of the apps, and we are inheriting a world that is broken and continues to shatter. The older generations have everything and still feel burnt out and unhappy? Cool. Cool cool cool. That will…

15 years ago this exact comment would have been written swapping out millennials for gen x and gen z for millennials.

Sure, 2010 wasn't great, but it wasn't this bad in terms of career aspects, or rather: it did improve.

I'm not as confident it's bouncing back as fast this time. College debt wasn't as bad in 2010. You didn't need to compete against thousands of people around the globe in 2010. There were still human interviews in 2010.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

scruple wrote: post #119
nabnob wrote: post #89

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Everything is noticeably more expensive than it was 15 years ago, though.

Sure, but I also make ~6x as much as I did 15 years ago. Despite that I still think everything is too fucking expensive.

I make 5x less than I did 2 years ago. Everything is indeed, too expensive.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

tayo42 wrote: post #205
kevinh wrote: post #51

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15 years ago this exact comment would have been written swapping out millennials for gen x and gen z for millennials.

Kind of but 15 years ago if you met online it was an embarrassing thing or something only old people did.

real shame because dating apps were meant to actually optimize matches 15 years ago. Now it's normalized and maximized for "engagement".
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