I am a generic programmer, the most ordinary one and I absolutely love my work (Not job). I often get this from co-workers and friends that they are in "burn out". while I understand it's a real situation and common among developers but I never faced it. The reason for that is I never overexert myself. The people who tell me they are in burnout are the same people I see working day-and-night, when company asks them to implement x thing, they will work at night, over the weekend, in their free time to implement X + Y + Z thing. I never understood why! impressing your superiors might give you a feeling of achievement but it's not hard to understand this is extremely temporary. better ways to achieve same things are actually working on things that you love, including and excluding programming. contribute to oss, go on hike, get a dog, draw or paint what's the point of converting a Proof of concept into a production ready code by investing your own personal time for which you are not even getting paid overtime?

just wanted to vent