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Honestly I’ve just learned to take my “burned out” state and enjoy it. I am fortunate enough with my job in that if I meet the deadlines noone cares how much I work at any given time, so when I don’t feel like working I just go for walks, or ride my bike around, or even drive to some remote place and have a picnic. Then I compensate by working hard on other days/weeks. This rhythm made my life so much happier, instead of trying to force myself to do an even amount of work all the time (including both forcing myself to stare at the screen when I really don’t want to, and forcing myself to go to bed when I want to stay late to work)
It is amazing what a job with healthy work/life balance can do. Unionize, and it’s even better.
work-hyperwork-omegawork-burnout-burnout-burnout-burnout-…
And then you ask the system when the next work cycle is and it just shows a loading bar that gets stuck at 13% before finishing the last 87 (I think? or whatever, I’m gay I can’t do math and not getting a calculator for a joke) in half a second with no warning.
Also its so weird seeing Admin next to your name when you comment on my shit now… I feel like I’m in trouble
It also shows Mod next to my name. So double the trouble.
I do a week worth of work in a panic over 6 random hours. Then doom scroll. Keeps me employed I guess…
Currently cleaning the storage room as I’m one Windows 11 install from madness.
Ah, Friday progress meetings. Yes I’m three weeks behind, yes I know I said that three weeks ago. Yes I could have probably reached out for help but I wasn’t far along enough then to understand what exactly I needed help on.
You gotta forgive yourself too. Some tasks are so new and so encompassing that you literally need some time to break it apart in your head and attack it from a few angles.
Curling up in a ball and fretting about it whilst doing nothing is one of those angles. It prepares you mentally for tackling it from other angles.
If it was as immediately easy as they made it out to be, then it wouldn’t be a problem they would delegate out. They have a rough idea in their heads how easy it is because it was built using their own convoluted logic which you then have to learn as an outsider
Me: close 50 cases yesterday because our team got called out and is half dead weight
Also me: calls in sick today because fuck em, that’s why.
I straight up never would have known that I had ADHD without memes like this, I swear. It’s crazy.
Isn’t it a “light” bipolar disorder?
the problem is when you sign for a job, or postpone it, into a time when this hyperworkmode is required, but it doesn’t activate cuz this job ain’t one of those things that you get obsessed over.
For me a Pomodoro timer works well. 25 minute task, 10 minute break, repeat. But to be honest I did spend the day playing dwarf fortress till 16:00, then rushing the task I had alloted the entire day for in 90 minutes.
Same, but also specifically I have a Pomodoro cube timer on my desk. If I use an app or website I get distracted, the cube is simple, fast, and weirdly effective.
What about no work?
Best i can do for ya!
It’s called ADHD.
UGH YEP.
Y’all need burnout leave
Personal experience: I’m in this meme for “thinking” work. For light physical work, I can work in a steady state for quite some time.
I think it comes from the possibility to go “all out” with thinking and tiring the brain very quickly. And we’re evolutionary absolutely not used to that.
Coincidentally, I think most people suffering from this are also in programming or scientific work. But causation could also be the other way, such that people with ADHD tendencies choose such jobs more often.
