30 years in the workforce
2 years starting a new startup
5 years after it was acquired
Total burnout...
I resigned and am 10 months into a break, it's the best thing I've ever done!
2 years starting a new startup
5 years after it was acquired
Total burnout...
I resigned and am 10 months into a break, it's the best thing I've ever done!
Hard workers will always think “But I can’t stop now!” , “Everything will go to shit if I stop working.” , and these kinds of thoughts like there is some force that keeps you from taking breaks. The only who is keeping you, is often yourself. Start learning to say no to bosses and your own magnum opus project and stand up for some basic stuff like recharging in good order.
Get your weekends in, get social / offline again, tune into the analog is my motto these days.
I'm going bankrupt for a second time because I can't work 100% anymore.
I'm yet to find a psychiatrist. Wish I could have a break sometimes.
A good doc can help a lot, take care of yourself
You mentioned glucose -- actually i feel much less anxious right after i eat something sweet.
Iron is also helping tired people but nobody knows why, so you might try that as well (for a short time period).
Being entrepreneurial and bootstrap-minded with big, bold visions can go poorly.
Doubly so when unexpected caring responsibilities appear in your life. Grief when you lose someone you love dearly, takes it out of you too. Add some clients who never paid. Volunteering on big projects to make a better world as well as help my own plans, only to find it being an infinite time sink. During the height of pandemic issues in 2020, I completely ran out of cash, hit the limit of my already credit-limit-hacked credit cards, and couldn't afford rent or food for a while. A rent deferral from the landlord, which I still had to pay back, helped, as did community food providers during lockdown.
If you worked with me, you'd probably consider me a highly skilled programmer among other things. I have a reasonably impressive résumé. It's not that I can't earn well, indeed I received a $350k plus equity offer a few months ago, which sadly was retracted on the day I was due to start due to the company's business changing direction. 1 year at that job would have set me up for years. Ah well.
And yet, homelessness isn't far away if I don't get another job soon. I haven't overspent either, I have next to nothing in the form of material wealth, and haven't been on a proper vacation in over a decade.
I'm always a bit irked when I see here on HN people suggesting that it's impossible to end up poor if you're a skilled developer. Shit happens, despite the potential for earning well.
It's pretty hard to end up poor as skilled developer, unless you spend many years chasing entreprenual ideas or otherwise engage in activities that don't guarantee income. But, if you just do paid work and are responsible with your money (assuming you live in a developed country), it's impossible to be broke after 20 years of working without a huge amount a bad luck.
Then it was cleaning up stuff around the house and yard that I didn't have time to do.
Now it's getting back into woodworking and making things.
I missed the smell of freshly cut wood :)