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throwaway2478on Ask HN: Do you feel burnout from being less hands on as you become more senior?

> When people get burnt out it's typically not from doing too much work, but doing too much work they don't enjoy.

That's where I am :) . It's valuable work that I don't enjoy doing. There's a lot of great advice given so far. I need to spend some time thinking about it.

throwaway2478on Ask HN: Do you feel burnout from being less hands on as you become more senior?

Thank you. I do feel emotionally drained at the end of the day. It is really hard to try and get in any work later. Also I always spend the evenings with my wife and kids till at least the kids go to bed which they did a little while ago :)

throwaway2478on Ask HN: Do you feel burnout from being less hands on as you become more senior?

The company is small enough that it would be chaotic to do that kind of transfer. That makes me feel guilty. But nothing ventured... It's not like I'll be able to keep going much longer in this manner. Better some chaos now than worse chaos later I suppose.