I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but:
If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.
Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.
Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
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Even before I got COVID, I used to work in healthcare because it was either that or a factory where I lived, making a bit over $12/hr.
I spent years working so much mandatory overtime that when I finally stopped I was bed ridden for almost 6 months, permanently fucking up my health
Ended up working 60+ hours a week on games for next 3-4 yrs (creating new health problems) but I still feel like I avoided a harder path for me personally.
Thank you! I'm doing what I can, but can't work ANY kind of physical job now
I also say this as someone with chronic health issues. When I worked healthcare, it didn't matter what else I wanted to do. I flat out couldn't
They'll churn you through and replace you with someone else once they've squeezed all they can from you.
Build something for yourself instead!
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I'm so much happier now, but the damage is done.
Prioritize yourself.
I now try to avoid burnout at all costs
My old norm was actually overwork
My favorite recovery: from burning out while successfully completing a graduate program and switching industries simultaneously.
But nothing prepared me for the burnout which I'm trying to currently manage. I will succeed.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/56mx4-help-me-to-reunion-with-my-family
Especially if you decide to do the family thing by adding kids to the mix during that time, which is like inviting new sources of burnout into your home environment.
Necessary part of the healing process.
Nothing gets to me like people treating it like a "badge of honour" that shows your "commitment". It's such a serious issue and so much long term damage
The TL;DR is that when you're stressed you're in fight or flight, and that cuts off your whole prefrontal cortex from processing. It's a bad way to be.
It does have a Christian slant to it, so I can't recommend to everybody. I think it's very much written in good faith though (pun intended), and points to a lot of fallacies/inconsistencies in American Christian habits and behaviors.
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Going to work I was crying and in fear of my boss.
The final straw was that I got spashed with hot oil down my face. My boss was just yelling at me to go back to work even after communicating. I was injured.
She deny it all, and said it never happened
Meeting that is 100% success. Exceeding that gets you rapidly diminishing benefits.
It never gets better.
Every job is the same.
Always want more from you even when you're giving 120% per metrics.
The fuck you do, you just told me I was fully meeting everything
Just straight up telling us "work is gonna suck and we expect you to thank us for it being like this"
Tighten our belts is a common one for us. When they dropped a couple 100k to make an app then shut it down after 3 months
This was after we were praised for how well we had done with the pivot to work from home
I've only done this once before.
And frankly, when push comes to shove, I may not feel able to either
Stress and burnout do real damage that can't be healed with a day off..
Do what it takes to not get fired and not make your coworkers' lives worse. No more.
Remember: ultimately, you are a replaceable part in an uncaring machine. If they work a part (you) to the point of failure, they'll merely replace the part. They care as much for you as you care for your car's oil filter.