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Developer burnout: This shit is real!

Premm Krishna Shenoy on October 05, 2020

I used to assume burnouts are probably not that eerie as it sounds and it's just a word for people to express their tiredness. But hell no! I was ...
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Romulo G Rodrigues

Damn, I didn't noticed I was checking every single box on that burnout symptoms list. And I've been in this limbo for months now. Some changes are gonna be needed, always loved this craft but the last months were a hell for me and I was wondering quitting to live on a farm already

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Premm Krishna Shenoy • Edited

Hope you are doing fine now :D. Bet it would be temporary, once we make a small modification to our lifestyle.
More importantly, we need to take care of our health which is difficult to regain while we can easily catch up on work.
P.S: Software engineering is the most flexible job that we can have, it's just we need to find the right balance.

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Dominic Mostert • Edited

I've been burned out for a few months now: I was tasked with building a huge video streaming site from scratch in just two weeks, by myself! Long story short I worked around 14 to 16 hours a day until launch - not to mention all the problems and arguments in between.

Compensation? Nope...

Finally had enough and I will be starting my new job next month! 😁 Better salary, fewer hours and less stress guaranteed.

Your health and happiness is more important than keeping some client or manager happy!

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Premm Krishna Shenoy

True that! Health and wellness are really important, realized it over a long period of time.
Fortunately, I have been in firms that emphasize employees to focus on health and take time off at any time if required.
Most of it is a personal option, we can either choose to take up more challenges, upskill, and enjoy the adrenaline or strike ourselves a balance between health and which works for us :D. Happy for you that you found the perfect balance that you need.
Anything becomes stressful/tedious if we keep doing it for a prolonged time.

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Fenil Kamdar

Thank you for sharing this! I have faced almost each and every burnout symptom you mentioned and believe me I had a great urge to NOT take breaks and that resulted in poor performance. I hope your tips will be helpful.

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Premm Krishna Shenoy

Thanks pal for taking time to read this. There is no point I solving all things at a faced paces manner, there are endless interesting problems that can keep popping up to satisfy our thirst for knowledge and practice.

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Junxiao Shi

I'm the stallion coder so I have been coding 14 hours per day and 7 days per week. However, things are slowing down in recent weeks. Blame this on the reduction of daylight hours.

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Premm Krishna Shenoy

Woah! That's a lot of hours :O. Take a good amount of break mate. A small break can go a long way into your productivity.

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Andrew Baisden

That game Among Us is a nice distraction from burnout 😉 Started playing it a few days ago it's hilarious.

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Premm Krishna Shenoy

Absolutely love how they kept it simple and free yet intresting.

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Andrew Baisden

I know right and it looks like a fairly simple game but it's a lot of fun to play. It would be cool to create a game like that cross platform with our technical stacks.