I've been through work-driven burnouts multiple times, mostly because my job was boring me to death with extremely repetitive tasks, without seeing any value in what I was developing. It usually led me things like online-gaming addiction in order to run away from it (work 8h, go home, play 5-6h, sleep, repeat)..
In my case, I had to go for a complete refresh in life, making multiple changes at once, in a simple "alright, fuck it" way, changing to another company, starting studying on a daily basis a subject not directly related to programming and trying to exercise a little bit more.
I'm still far from where I'm aiming for, but these changes got me happy as I wasn't in a very long time, reason why I identified so much with your post.
Thanks for sharing! I'm sure everyone had been there at some point (or will be) and this would be great advice.
I've been cramming code for the last few years, and my hobbies had been code-related somehow (reading technical books, hacking electronics). In fact you could say I didn't have a life. I didn't go hiking, exercise, get excited about new things. I didn't even play games. True that kind of pushing through did get me to where I am fast, but it's also very unbalanced and risky to my long-term goals.
Again, great sharing.
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I've been through work-driven burnouts multiple times, mostly because my job was boring me to death with extremely repetitive tasks, without seeing any value in what I was developing. It usually led me things like online-gaming addiction in order to run away from it (work 8h, go home, play 5-6h, sleep, repeat)..
In my case, I had to go for a complete refresh in life, making multiple changes at once, in a simple "alright, fuck it" way, changing to another company, starting studying on a daily basis a subject not directly related to programming and trying to exercise a little bit more.
I'm still far from where I'm aiming for, but these changes got me happy as I wasn't in a very long time, reason why I identified so much with your post.
Keep sharing :P
Thanks for sharing! I'm sure everyone had been there at some point (or will be) and this would be great advice.
I've been cramming code for the last few years, and my hobbies had been code-related somehow (reading technical books, hacking electronics). In fact you could say I didn't have a life. I didn't go hiking, exercise, get excited about new things. I didn't even play games. True that kind of pushing through did get me to where I am fast, but it's also very unbalanced and risky to my long-term goals.
Again, great sharing.