Regretting the Golden Handcuffs: Beware the Costs of Burnout

Post by beachstartup » Thu, Sep 03, 2015, 3:51 PM UTC

scurvy wrote: post #90

beachstartup wrote: post #6

> because tech is a small town and I shouldn’t burn any bridges to anyone out there listening - it's not. technology is a huge, huge, huge, huge established industry. think about it - what does "tech" even mean? it's an umbrella term for 4 or 5 classifications that all kind of bleed into each other - including finance. in addition, every non-tech company has a shitload of tech in it. gee whiz. it's almost as if techn…

I'll disagree. I've had people come up to me and mention that they remembered my posts on XYZ mailing list. Said mailing list is a huge, public list and I might have posted on it a dozen times. What you say and how you act can definitely have a positive impact on your career. I haven't looked for a job since college. I doubt the negatives are as impacting as the positives, but I'm sure they do exist.

this guy is talking about a buyout offer/negotiations, not posting to a public mailing list.

Post by ghostbrainalpha » Thu, Sep 03, 2015, 8:18 PM UTC

CuriousSkeptic wrote: post #48

It seems to be a common sentiment that burnout is largely driven by how many hours a day you work. Why is that? From what I've been taught burnout is the result of continuous stress. Where stress is more or less defined as a continuous sensation of being threatened. I've seen people with perfectly normal workours become burnt out. I've even seen people working ten hours a week getting burnt out. The common factor thu…

Such a great comment.

My happiest times were from a startup where we worked 80 hours a week.

Another startup we were in the process of selling, was such a hostile place it literally gave me work related PTSD and I was only working 40 hours per week.

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