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You should also know that it can take a LONG time to fully recover.

I got burnt out 3-4 years ago and am only now feeling like I’m coming back to normal. Maybe if I took a more intentional path to recovery I’d be back earlier, but it’s not like the kind of thing where you can take a couple weeks PTO and expect it to clear up

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Did you take a break from working or did you find a way to recover and work?

Getting a new job at a big, slow moving company can be a good way to recover while not becoming destitute

For me, the big slow moving org CAUSED the burnout

Burnout isn’t always about overwork. There are several different typologies and mine was more related to a lack of control/pointlessness that led to a very extreme form of ennui. The end result was the same with depression, anhedonia, and cynicism.

I feel this way too to the extent that I am willing to take up a non technical role as well. Just want to be like a no name machine at my desk, alone. do my time, leave on time and then be free to live my life as I please... but I don't think large places are devoid of their own BS. They have lots of fluffy rituals that wastes a lot of my personal time and energy.

Month off and then to a new job that was arguably even worse. Only stayed there a year, but my new gig is good

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