Ask HN: How to take first steps to escape burnout?
For the first time in my decade long career I'm deeply burned out. I've been feeling this way for at least the past 3 months. The smallest of tasks feel like moving a mountain which leads to procrastination and then no feeling of success when completing a task that my bosses feel is already late. I've never been anything but a top performer before. I've thought and written about why I feel like this. It's a swirling combination of lack of autonomy or strategic involvement, working on a codebase that requires a lot of effort to wrangle (single digit millions of lines of code), in languages (C++, Python) I don't enjoy or want to master, with really bad tools and long feedback loops, on a team with hardly any camaraderie, and a roadmap that isn't very exciting to me. The job pays well but all in all I don't feel anything like myself. I once was incred
Why it failed
For the first time in my decade long career I'm deeply burned out. I've been feeling this way for at least the past 3 months. The smallest of tasks feel like moving a mountain which leads to procrastination and then no feeling of success when completing a task that my b
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- throwawaystuck
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews