I've worked in this profession for years and used to enjoy solving the core problems. Lately everything feels exhausting, including work I once found interesting. I can't tell whether I'm burned out on the field itself or on the staffing and constant urgency at my present company. Before changing careers entirely, I'm considering time off and conversations with people doing similar work in healthier environments. What helped you distinguish a bad workplace from a profession you genuinely no longer wanted?
Figuring out whether burnout is about the profession or the current workplace
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For me the giveaway was whether I still liked the work on quieter days. If the task itself felt fine when the chaos was removed, that pointe...
For me the giveaway was whether I still liked the work on quieter days. If the task itself felt fine when the chaos was removed, that pointed more to the workplace than the profession.
I had the opposite experience. Once I changed teams, I realized I didn’t actually want the same kind of work anymore, even though my old employer made everything worse.
That’s why I don’t think there’s always a clean answer. Sometimes the bad environment burns you out so badly that you can’t tell what your r...