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Burnout can mean a lot of things, without precise and quantifiable definition, you cannot broad-brush this. Burnout can mean from "slight discomfort to challenges" to "suicidal" state of person. So I am giving general advice to build a sustainable career and if you're burned out and on the verge of suicide, you're going to have to find solace in some other type of work that gives you purpose and that you can master it.

Advice presented by others in this thread would lead to worse spiraling effect where bad work ethics would lead you to be worse at mastering things which would lead to even worse work ethics. Sustaining a career for decades requires careful attention to balance between work and life, ideally if both are coalesced (which many people here would gasp in horror). Even after a burnout.



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