I am pretty sure I burned out in 2017. It has been a slow crawl back to normalcy.
The real trouble is that there is no end to the demands that a business will make on a person. A business can't halt and wait for your burnout to subside. A business needs to push the next widget out - and if you can't help with that then someone else will.
This is directly at odds with recovery. There's never enough time to feel proud and connected to your work. Just the next task.
I've been coding professionally since '82 and am in the tail end of my 5th career burnout. The underlying issue is our industry is an ocean of poor communicators, who routinely ignore signals until a tsunami hits.
The real trouble is that there is no end to the demands that a business will make on a person. A business can't halt and wait for your burnout to subside. A business needs to push the next widget out - and if you can't help with that then someone else will.
This is directly at odds with recovery. There's never enough time to feel proud and connected to your work. Just the next task.