I think there is likely another key reason younger people who aren't married and don't have kids might be more likely to experience burnout: they are delegated more work because they are perceived as having the time and energy for it. I work in healthcare, and 99% of the time if a shift was short staffed, it was the young unattached people who would get asked and often pressured into picking up extra work.
This is what I'm feeling right now. I just started my job and the workload is just enormous. And the deadlines... My god. I'm expected to do my job and learn on the job. Weekends I just end up sleeping all day just to recover from the stress.
Totally me a couple months in my ‘new’ job, learning & deadlines have recently compromised my immune system & sick. just glued to my laptop constantly on call. The whole being single with no kids hit home, gets lonely :(
I wonder if burnout begins when I think I have to do multiple tasks all at once. Though that is never how anything works, I feel like it does. I reflect on a project where I had to process nearly a thousand parts. I didn't have a real deadline, although economy still demands timeliness. In the end ever parts experienced its own way through each process and none of those parts where rushed or in a hurry to get to the next step. Rather, if they had any feelings, I'd say those parts enjoyed where they were at each moment and were happily surprised at the result of what they became. The message: take your time, do what you can, tomorrow will come on its own carrying with it wherever the day is to include. Easier said than done? Certainly. Doable? Absolutely.
Couldn't agree more. Everytime I've suffered from burnout it has been due to workplace relationships as the primary cause of my stress. Work is work, there is a right way and a wrong way, relatively black and white. People on the other hand, well let's just say there's a million shades of grey.
You are right, but for me it's just work. My boss is nice and supportive, but he does not understand that the workload is just too much, maybe because he works a lot himself. I see the same symptoms she described, my motivation to do anything has dropped so drastically, I don't know where to start bc it's just too much.
@@veero8130 y Same story here. I just don't get it why do you have to suffer for some else company or business.. I joined when there were 2 people in the company i was happy motivated to do a lot... Now with more than 50 people this has become a culture in the company and it sucks so bad.
@@saurabhtyagi939 hmm. Have you tried to talk with your boss, maybe you can change departments or something. If you were there from the start, sure he values you for that. I work in a huge international company with 200k people working worldwide 😅 there's no hope for change hahaha I'm literally just a number haha
I'm too helpful and considerate. Mum always has to remind me that 'you can't pour from an empty cup'. You need to fill yourself up before you can really help others
This has always been a fault of mine, and it seems others -- whether coworkers, employers, family, or ex-spouse-- all took advantage of my generosity. NO MORE. I am a recovering people pleaser. My last detachment I'm working on is my current job. I'm dialing back what I give, in direct reflection of what I get in return. No help from others, no pay raises, no needed time off, no consideration or reciprocation in return-- then I am finished busting my ass for you. Currently moving closer to family, and seeking work there that pays at least the same, if not a little more, but appreciates me, and at the same time, brings ease and flow and time for myself/my family when I'm off the clock. No more of this slave labor, energy vampire employment for me.
I haven't had a day off in almost 7 months. I have to force myself to get out of bed every day. At this point I would have to say I am legitimately burnt out.
I nearly shot myself after working 60 days 10-12 hours a day in a row. How did you make it to 7 months. I would have quit my job in another fer weeks or so just to get time off. At that point I had enough money to go 3-4 months basically without pay. Plenty enough time to find another job.
@@kkkirytenahtss1 You're right, but let's not put the culpability solely on Daniel. For the last three years, my office has been short staffed and it has been very difficult to convince the exec/senior level management to allow us greater headcount. Every single person in my office is exhausted, burnt out, and several have quit this year including the QC manager, a buyer, and a planner. My team is currently around half strength and we need 5-6 more people to fill the team and to perform at the level that we are being expected to. Some of us are working late into the night especially now that working from home is allowed. The management in charge of hiring more people and listening to the concerns of overworked employees have absolutely and unequivocally failed in their duties. It is THEIR responsibility to make sure that we have enough people. My manager can only do so much with the resources that are given to her and she, and the team, need more. Every day that HR and upper management do not act on this problem is another day where they put their employees in a predicament. That predicament is: Do I A) take time off, get further behind, and cause some of work to overflow to my equally exhausted coworkers, or B) keep working and hope that we get a full team eventually. For me, my choice has usually been B. I've taken 28 days off in the last 43 months. No long vacations, only scatted 1-2 days off here and there. I work on my sick days and I work on my days off for as long as I can handle. Daniel, myself, and my coworkers could take time off. Absolutely. But there are repercussions to that. It's not as simple as "just take time off" especially when you're dedicated to your job and are chronically overwhelmed for years on end.
How serendipitous. Today is my last day at my current job. The last 6-8 months, I've gone through all 3 parts of burnout. It started with calling out sick more and more because I was too tired to go in. Then I started being more isolated and adversarial at work. I found myself working hard to defend and justify myself from imagined attacks and scrutiny, because I didn't feel like the work I was doing was ever good enough or done at a pace that was satisfactory, but I wasn't able to do any better. I've been here 8 years, and only recently did I start hating and resenting this job. Monday I start a new job. I'm hoping that a new environment will renew my sense of purpose.
Might I ask where your annoying job was? I been working at McDonald's for 7 years, then Carls Jr for 5.5 yrs. And I battle alcoholism, pot-usagr (quit both for about 1 year now).... I have a burglary felony and a DUI from back in 2005. Its harder to get good work
Fast food worker here and I can attest to how much how well you are matched to the job matters. When I'm on the line, I'm perfectly happy. I like doing things with my hands. Stick me on the register...I can't wait to go home.
One of the best things I ever did for myself was quit busting my butt for someone elses profit...quit my job, and work for myself...I can barely survive sometimes (monetarily speaking), but I'd rather be broke and happy than rich and miserable.
Same here. This is hard, too. And I'm also concerned about making ends meet. But honestly, I couldn't make ends meet working for someone else either. I couldn't handle working enough hours to survive. Now I go at my own pase and do my own thing. Life is so much better this way.
I had become seriously burnt-out after 3 years of working at a service station. I found myself became apathetic, sometimes even passively aggressive toward customers. I felt like I wasn't a human anymore but merely a machine. While I was working, I always felt so bored and my mind wanders. After the day's shift done, I felt so used up and had no energy for anything else.
Same here. I really enjoyed the job, til coworkers noticed how hard I work, d my tendency to pick up the slack, so they began to do less and less, leaving it for me. I also seem to have a work ethic that isn't seen in many people anymore. I originally started on one schedule-- as requested, 4 days a week, 6-8 hour shifts, no nights, days only. Gradually this began to disintegrate, and now my schedule is all over the place some weeks. And more frequently, I'm being given 6 days in a row before a day off ever happens. I'm older now, and dealing with some health issues that affect the amount of energy I have to give toward my job. Overworking me doesn't help. Lastly, having this crap schedule, I rarely get to spend any family time with my kids or grandkids anymore, because at the end of the day, I've no energy whatsoever left. And days off are spent doing as little as possible, perhaps only laundry, so I'll have work clothes for the next week. I'm too tired to even walk my dog lately-- and we both need that. And he has noticed my decline. Fortunately, I'm moving closer to my family this week, and may have a new job in a different setting than my usual retail. However, those two GOOD stressors, on top of my not so good stressor, the current job, all are combining to ramp up my exhaustion level to an all-time high. Triggered the vertigo that is common with vestibular disorders such as mine, and I wound up calling off sick today, because I couldn't even drive safely. I am exhausted, and tired of feeling tired.
I think another part of the burnout is the sectorization of so many jobs. When one does not see the end result, because they are just a small part of the chain, it is easy to feel that what you do does not have much meaning / make an impact. Boredom, repetition, extreme greed for profits in almost all corporations... "He who has a why can stand almost any how". But if the "why" is not there, the hours feel like an eternity that slips away without meaning
I definitely felt this at my new job as a baker. as soon as I started 2 people went on vacation and another had a surgery all throughout the holidays. I was crying almost everyday after all the stuff I was doing. I never got to experience part time which I'm still listed as and I have overtime. I finally get to relax and just decorate cakes. I almost quit cuz I hardly had any help and was told I was doing something wrong everyday which I wasn't.
Francis Lai yea but we were so understaffed that I had to keep going. but she did push for me to switch from bread to cakes, which has been calming for my anxiety
Ouch. I hear you, just after starting my job, two people left, a third left just before labor day, then someone went on vacation, and got hurt on said vacation, having to miss the next week, when someone ELSE went on vacation! I don't think I've seen a week with my agreed upon minimum hours- but I've gotten plenty of overtime. And, to top it off, you can't trust several of the male employees to do their jobs. This place is basically high school, take two. And I've be doing the same thing over two jobs for 9+ years. I need a change.
@Abraxis, Here's a tip: Live with your parents for 10 years from when you start working, you'll have enough money for a big down-payment on a house/apartment.
@@daisylazy5326 Probably not all, but I suspect most (90%) of people do have that option, it's just that they don't want to. For those that can't live with parents, find a roommate, you can share rent. It's what people in their 20s should do if they want to save money. I know it's shitty to have to live with bad roomates (I've been there) and finding a good roommate can be really hard, but so is everything in life. Not driving a car is also a good advice, but if you have to drive, drive your family's car. I myself instead of buying a new car drive my old family's car that has 16 years now. It drives perfectly well. Much cheaper than getting a new car. There are ways to save money but they all require cutting on luxury most people are not willing to cut.
4 day work weeks also help. It is much easier to work 4 10-hour days than 5 8-hour days when it comes to stress. The 3 day weekend is perfect for reducing stress and makes me more productive at work. Plus a guaranteed weekday off also helps with those errands that are hard to do on weekends like go to the bank. ... *lookin' at employers.*
omg, some employees work Sunday to Thursday, some work Tuesday to Saturday while others keep the Monday To Friday. Some banks do it already. Not that complicated.
it mostly has to do with the socio-emotional quality of the environment you're working or living in. take the same amount of work load, in a toxic environment, or one where u feel lonely because u can't really connect with anyone: it's gonna be a struggle. now take the same workload in an environment where you actually find friends, it's gonna be a completely different story.
From my mine of work and other in it I've talked to. If you have over bearing supervisors that treat you poorly you burn out faster. It is often called Retired On duty. But if your boss treats you fairly and shows they care and has your back, engages in ideas it happens less often. A study was done on factory workers. The lighting was poor. So the factory bosses tried to fix the lights to increase productivity. After three or four lighting improvements work increased each time. They asked why the workers had improved. And the consensus was "W e complained about the lighting and the company did something." Shocked, because they thought it was the natural lighting and a softer light that was better the fluorescence. But showing you care about employees is the most helpfull.
Yup, I definitely feel burnout. I spent six years studying architecture and now that I have graduated, I don't even feel like working in the industry. During my study years, I feel tired at the end of everyday, the rewards were limited and I didn't think I'm good at it.
In the old days people with degrees and leadership skills would be the chosen ones. Now they just pick their friends or who ever they "like" at work. Then its those people that do not know how to supervise. They dont even offer company classes anymore to help teach those skills either. Thats how you get" bosses" not leaders. They treat their employees poorly. I know places where they deny time and days off for doctor appts, surgery procedures, funerals, etc..
@@brendaechols2228 Even in a fair work environment where people are promoted based on merit, there is the problem that people tend to get promoted until they reach the level where they're incompetent. Adding to the problem is the fact that a lot of work is undervalued (referring to relative pay). People will aim for management positions for the extra pay, even if they're not good at it. That's bad for them and bad for the people they supervise.
This reminds me of another related stress symptom: compassion fatigue. Something all too common in caregiving positions... beit in a professional capacity like a doctor or therapist... but also in the more common - being in the position for someone close to you in some sense (parents, children, SOs, friends, etc.). There's definitely a sense of burning out after so long trying to do damage control. (I maaay be partly venting here because oh man. Is this my current situation. But I'll spare all the details.)
Why? Life is made of details. It's how you can define... Anything, really. So, maybe you just need to tell someone all about it. Or, share a tiny piece with lots of people. So that no single person has to bear everything. But you also get to have so many people share their life back. Don't burn out. Don't ever give up. Nothing is final, except goodbye.
The autonomy thing is key for me. I need to feel trusted and respected to do my job well. When I am given little autonomy and communication is minimal my performance goes down.
I would expect burn out to be more common in those with lower incomes. Having six side hustles just to make ends meet probably results in serious burn out. Health issues can impact it too. I'm low income, part time shitty retail job and I have health issues I'm battling as well. I know the only way to get out of retail is education, but with my job and my health issues I'm so exhausted I can barely focus on anything during my free time. I'm going to school but it's a struggle and I'm never sure I'm retaining any information because I'm not at 100%
J.J. Shank well duh. Her explanation included high income earners. My comment was mainly due to the complete lack of a comment about low income workers in the video.
lol, when you say "side hustles" it makes it sound like "criminal activity" or "scamming". I'm sure you didn't mean it that way but I found it funny and wanted to share my thoughts for some reason...
if you start feeling sorry for yourself or start making excuses why it's absolutely impossible to change your life around that's the exact reason why your life is as it is. And you need to decide if you want to have people hugging you and pitting you or if you would rather suck it up for a moment, start doing some exercise to get better health and stamina. I've been down that hole myself and lot of friends too - the ones who started the answer with "yeah, but you know I can't because ..." are still there and still complaining. In past decade become fashion to be politically correct and rather lie than hurt somebody feelings and it become perfectly acceptable (if not required) to be absolutely savage and nasty to anyone who is honest and direct = the result: rapidly growing number of people that are oversensitive to themselves, unable to take action when required and desperately searching for excuse why their life is as it is without admitting it's them who are responsible for it... Anyways - get goal, get moving and good luck
+ tzahry, building stamina and willpower is a great thing, but don't discount the benefits of learning to share when you are struggling. Letting other people know or getting counseling can be encouraging and give you just the boost you need to get through it. So I don't think labeling an issue we all may struggle with and making people comfortable with sharing it is a bad thing unless those people then never try to get over their issue.
Jamie that's really important to talk about too. I hope they covered that in other videos already or put together a compilation of similar videos and make more talking about it.
Seems to me like a "job" is rather arbitrary in this context. The brain doesn't differentiate between jobs and just plain lifestyle. People on the autism spectrum often experience "burnout(whatever you wanna call it is semantics in my opinion)" when we try to fit in in society. Many if us have sensory overload issues and just being social is not exactly effortless as it is with most. But here is the thing. Its the same symptoms as whats described here. Which leads me to believe its really about over committing yourself, and pushing beyond your limits.
RarezplzAJ Thank you. In my experience, while it *can* certainly be a disability, a lot of that is often us being different than the norm and living in a society built for that norm and not us. Loud, chaotic environment. Social expectations based on that norm etc. That is a lot of stress to deal with.
Seriously? Only The Netherlands and Sweden have burnout as an "official" thing? I live in The Netherlands and i always thought almost all countries also recognize it? I mean, we even got advertisements from the government to talk about depression etc on TV (a lot) now ....
THATS SO AMAZING!!! I live in Chile and here mental health is not even an issue for most people. If you feel depressed, anxious or stressed out, most people will tell you to grow u and just deal with it, and that makes everyone so sick =( I WISH there was at least some awareness regarding mental health, here even seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist once makes other people think of you as damaged or broken or crazy. For a long time I had a depression that kept me from getting out of my house and even up from my bed, but my parents (and many friends too) told me I had to be responsible and get up, that it was childish to be so lazy. MANY years after I finally got treated and it was so good! Now that I am aware of what mental health is it enrages me how totally oblivious of it our society is. I see sick people everywhere, but because it's "in their heads" they don't think it's worth treating!!
Norway has it too at least. I got really burnt out for a while during my studies last year and my teacher informed me it was considered acceptable sick leave.
The burn-outs I experienced as a teenager were definitely depression-related, since I was also suffering from severe chronic depression at the time. I also was in a situation where I had very little in the way of day-to-day social support.
That depends on what call center you work for. The red flag I always look for when considering working for one is if they have mandatory overtime. Overtime pay is nice, but if I'm going to have it forced on me on a steady basis, burnout is inevitable.
Oh my gosh this is literally what I am going through right now... I don't have any clinical disorders like depression or anxiety, and everything in this video matches perfectly with what I'm experiencing right now. Thank you SciShow, this as been a therapeutic experience watching this video!
his channel is actually huge and it seems to be built entirely from fictional stories read aloud,,, absolutely peculiar that there's so many who wish to listen to fictional audio books of this sort, really innovative job.
This makes sense! I work at a restaurant where we're very short staffed and I have to do 3 different jobs that require alot of work. It's a nightmare when we get super busy...... I doubt myself alot because of this predicament I'm in.
Younger people have elso less experience, and are more easly overwhelmed or will let work owerwhelm them, and their in the phase of choosing what to realy do with their life and in which direction to commit
I’m going through a period of major burnout right now. I work for a very high volume animal hospital and I’m also working on my final externship for vet tech school. On top of that I have my young daughter who is on the spectrum and likely has ADHD as well. I just feel emotionally and physically empty, like there’s no joy in my job anymore, which sucks because I’m just starting out. I don’t know how to get the passion back. Burnout sucks 😢
Jenn12141983 It's a very emotionally and physically draining profession. I only lasted 11 yrs as a tech. I recommend aiming for work at a smaller practice. Or working for a hospital that has "departments", where your job is only one thing, instead of 10 things. It's the demand for ridiculous multitasking in veterinary practices that sets us up for burnout😥
My mom suffers from this. I most likely was on the verge of burnout in highschool (I had more or less all of the symptoms my mom had, but for a shorter time so I wasn't as exhausted). It really sucks, but at least here in Sweden it's classified as a real diagnosis and you can still be on paid leave if you suffer from it because of your work. But still, if it's bad enough it can take years to fully recover.
I have reached this breaking point too many times and now recognize it pretty well. I've also helped others through their own bouts of burnout. I wish it were in the DSM, though.
I'm 98% positive I was suffering this when I quit my last job EDIT: and I definitely was when I was going to school 3 days a week and working the other 4 for a while there.
At school I study hard. I also make sure I'm at school from 10 to 4 each weekday. But when I'm at home I don't do school work unless there is a tight deadline. This is because I don't want to get a burnout
In some way it is a procrastination excuse. I always keep procrastinating when I want to get stuff done at home. So I get stressed about it and still not do anything. So i decided to let it go, and now I'm not nearly as stressed which really helps my productivity at school (and therefore overall). And I know that once I start with something I can't get myself to stop. And if I'm always working, and never relaxing a burnout will happen no matter what
I do kind of the same thing, I try and do not a lot of work at home as possible, I just don't want stress in a place that's meant to be safe. I stay an hour after school everyday do to homework and studying. However, I have by exams coming up so i'm gonna have to work at home now.
I'm starting to become more and more convinced that Google is psychic. This was recommended to me after a really shitty day at work where I almost got fired.
All of this really hits home with me. It’s like you’re describing my life. I’m wondering where the line is between burnout and other mental health issues such as depression though? Seems to have a lot of overlap?
I need to show this video to my boss. In the parking lot at work he likes to burnout his car. All that noise and smoke, so annoying. I *tire* of his shenanigans.
Many people have no grasp about how devastating burn-out can be. It can destroy one’s ability to do a job they once loved to the point that they actually leave a career and have to start over doing something else.
Yup I’m in accounting and this past week I have been so tempted to just walk away from everything. I just feel so burnt out and on the weekends I’m just so mentally exhausted that all I do is sleep.
i may have missed any statement on this, but i have noticed that in those suffering from burn out, they will tend to feel that even though they have accomplished a task(what ever that job task may be) they feel that it wont have worth in the "big picture". So, as an example, a student who pushes hard to get through Grad School, but begins to feel the affects of the long list of different classes they have to have high grades in, in order to achieve their diploma, may feel after a certain point in the progress that its not worth the hassle. Another example is workers. I know from talking to multiple people, both in my line of work and friends/mutual acquaintances, that if they are put to a repeated task, and though complete it every day, have it return to be done the next day(and so-forth) they tend to lose the motivation to do the task. almost in a form of Sisyphus. Repeating the same task, to accomplish it, and to come in and do it AGAIN and AGAIN. It could have some correlation to endorphins. The initial feeling from finishing the task and having the "i did it!" rush, wears over time. Soon the same task that gave you the Rush of "i did it!" becomes a "meh" due to it being just the same tasks, nothing new to it. Just a thought...
As an introvert, I've suffered burnout of both education (university) and a job (financial planner). Both times had me without my usual small network of support.
I love my job. It isn't my dream job, but that's why I'm going to school again. But I genuinely enjoy my job when I think about it. However, there have been many, many days when I've been headed to work and thought, "God, I hope I break my leg on the way. I would rather break my leg than go to work today," or, "I wouldn't even care if a car hit me right now. I wouldn't have to go to work if a car hit me." Which are alarming reactions for having to go to work. I feel guilty about it, or disingenuous, because I know I like my work. I love making people's day better, I love coffee, I even love cleaning. But god damn if I don't dread going more days than not lately.
If you work in a health profession then one of the easily accessible ways to deal with burnout is remembering what you're doing it for. A researcher recently made a breakthrough curing an otherwise intractable skin condition in a child that could have been fatal if left unchecked, her words after is that "all things prior to that moment were made up for after having solved the child's problem". The one person you can save from cancer is the one that matters. And it is. Having completed work gives you access to the completed work, just look back on it.
I’m late to this channel but I have to say I love Brit Garner’s voice. Relaxing and informative but no so much that I drift off. Excellent overall presenter for the topic.
I got stuck in a extremely toxic cycle where I knew work was burning me out, and my mother convinced me otherwise. I ended up being extremely mentally unwell for nearly a year.
Been there a couple of times. When you don't feel appreciated, you start to feel worthless and wonder why you even bother coming in. Had a couple jobs say things like, "No one is irreplaceable," and "You don't need appreciation, that's what getting paid is for." I've chosen My own mental, and physical, well-being over a steady pay check. I've literally almost died from bad jobs.
I could relate to most of this during seventh grade, especially during the second semester. There started to be more and more homework, and so I was working for at least half the day. In order to manage my time better, I started going in for lunch to work and it took a while just to get a few math problems done. I thought that lunch was just an inconvenience, so I started skipping lunch in order to get work done... which was barely touched by the end. I started thinking that my hobby was also an inconvenience to work, so I stopped Truck Spotting for 3-4 weeks. I was always finding myself dreading spending another afternoon cooped up inside instead of going Truck Spotting on state Route 3. I was beginning to become easily distracted and my energy always felt sapped. I thought Breaks were inconvenient too, so I stopped taking breaks as well. Since work was taking longer for me to do, I was also staying up past 10:30 in order to get it done. One night, in order to make a last ditch effort to finish a project, I stayed up until about 1:00 AM. One of my friends said that he could stay up till 2 doing work and be fine, so I started wondering if I was working long enough. It felt like a cycle that was only going to get worse, and then spring break came along and I was free for about a week. Then, the same thing happened in the 4th quarter, which was what I was hoping wouldn’t. I hope that 8th grade is less stressful than 7th... I know that you adults out there have more to worry about than excessive schoolwork, and I want to be strong enough to be able to handle your situations without taking rest breaks and burning out.
This made me feel a little better, I've been severely burnt out after only working for 8 months, I'm single and young, and after my previous job (1year and 4months) burnout, I took 7 months off, so the fact that I'm already burnt out makes me feel absolutely pathetic (in comparison to my previous job, my coworkers and manager are wayyy better, however the emotional, social, and mental demands are way higher). For context, I'm a nurse, and my previous job was in surgery, so my patients were asleep. My current job is on a regular med surg floor, so I'm dealing with patients and their mood swings/panic attacks/selfishness/needy/assholes/perverts, not to mention the dementia patients that you never know how they'll react, some are combative, scared, confused, and then there's drug seekers, people who are looking to sue, family drama, family/patient who think they know more than doctors, harassment, creepy flirting, patients dumping their past trauma and issues or even telling you literal crimes they've done, ect. Basically we deal with the worst part of people, whether due to pain/entitlement/anger/anxiety/dementia or they're just a terrible person, and it's extremely exhausting. Also there's rude doctors and other hospital staff. And while you might read this and go wow yeah that's understandable that you're burnt out, but I just feel pathetic because can't handle it anymore while so many nurses do it for their whole life just fine, plus have kids and all these other responsibilities while my only responsibility is work. I don't know what to do, I'm applying for a leave of absence but even doing that makes me feel pathetic and like I'm doing something wrong.
"You don't even need to have a job!" ~talking about students I get that being a student isn't technically classified as a "job", but I would definitely not describe it as being unoccupied either. You have X amount of class a week, next to that you need to work after hours to process your courses, and all of that while being evaluated every so often. That sounds a lot like a "job" to me, certainly if all the hours a students spends working add up to more than a full time week on average...
What you have to know is that you can take your own piece of the cake as well as they are taking theirs. If the workload is overwhelming you can leave the situation more often.
6 colleagues left in 3 months. Team leader resigned yesterday. Took the 6th 7th 8th and 9th days of sick leave myself in 12 years over the last 2 weeks. I'm in the cynicism and ethacacy stage. Trying to spend annual or long service leave (near 700 hours available) but upper management keep rejecting my requests and moving my shifts around the clock. All my friend coworkers left between covid started and now. Only reason I'm still here is because mortgage.
Tell us something we don’t know. The question isn’t “Why”, it’s how to stop work burnout. Get a new job, or learn to say no to too much on your plate! Then take small breaks, meditate daily and delegate what you can. Your time is valuable and can never be gotten back. If employers don’t value their employees lives then it’s time to look out for your own well-being.
I'm so happy burn-outs are recognised in my country. Otherwise I don't think my father would still have his job. He has not been able to work for several weeks now and has to take strong medication :(
There's no combination of words in the queen's English that can quantify my scathing, pure, unadulterated and uncompromised hatred for my job. Don't ever pursue a career in physical therapy
roguedogx Sounds like you know something a lot of us don't. I'm sorry to hear that about Ohio - maybe you can be the one to spread the word to your community? :) All the best ~
What I find funny is when people who work in an office complain about being stressed or 'burned out'. They aren't the ones who have to slog it out on a sales floor or work in a manufacturing plant; all they have to do is sit in an office.
Before I moved into an office, I worked in our foundry. From the second they turn on the phones I am bombarded with calls. In-between calls I am trying to catch up on emails and never ending paper work. On top of all that, you have customers and reps taking their frustrations out on you and other corporate BS. Trust me, the mental work is very stressful and tiring.
@@infinitecanadian I remember having to stand all day and how my feet killed me. Now it' s my rear from sitting in front of a computer and phone all day. You cannot win my friend. That's the point of this video; doing too much work is exhausting.
@@sethkael9839 Oh, but I can win. I have been trudging along for the better part of 20 years. The only time I have gotten to sit down on the job was just within the last few months to print labels.
Being an independent IT professional, I see this everywhere, especially in the social services field! I often joke (although Im certainly not qualified) that free counseling services are included in your services from us.....cause sometimes you just need to vent to someone you trust and barely know.
This is why people need to push enrichment, always be learning and doing new things, even change careers every few years if needed. Gotta keep the brain active, and doing the same thing over and over, the brain literally shuts down those sections.
You know when you can't remember things you emailed to someone a few weeks ago, can't remember conversations past a few days and don't look away from your screen hardly for more than a quick drink of water that you're working too hard. Even with "regular" hours, the brain on overclock mode just ends up turning into a blank slate with a blank stare and blank expressions xD
People with kids and family experiencing less burn out isn't from having people to lean on. It's because going to work is like a vacation from the hell of raising kids...
Definetly had this last month. I had to study a LOT to pass an exam and finally pass the last class of my university degree. I live a log way from my family and my friends had other things in mind or lived really far. Even if they were there online, it was hard.
I was wondering if you guys would possibly do an episode on 40 hour work weeks and whether or not they are the most effective or not. I'm very interested.
I didn't know I was burnt out for the longest time. I just thought I was using my mental illness as an excuse to be lazy. I used to get burnt out within a month of starting a new job. I'd do great, employers would love me, then I'd hit rock bottom and never come back up. Now that I'm at a job that doesn't drain me (both mentally and physically) I haven't felt it in a whole year. And you're right, a huge contributor was not having any sort of support system to open up to after a hard day of work, or anything else for that matter. Being alone and overworked do not mix.
Employers don’t backfill positions when someone is out on leave or sick. So they decide to dump that person’s workload in the existing team members who already have a ton on their plate.
I burned out at 25, mainly because I was feeling so much pressure to achieve everything perfectly before that "dreadful number". People kept calling me lazy for not being a doctor (I'm mostly an artist) although I always dive deep into whatever I love doing. I had to do a lot of work on myself to get out of this but I eventually did it, even though I'm still prone to falling into the same pitfalls over and over. At least, I can still realize it and stop before I go in too deep. Burning out is well-known but yet, still so misunderstood.
I am a newly graduated psychologist and am just about to resign from my first job. It's only been 3 months, but I feel like its been a full year. The workplace is very stressful and the demands are very high. The turnover in the job is extremely high because the company is very top heavy so all the managers are being paid high salaries but not producing income, so they are forced to endlessly hire new workers who can produce income (and who are desperate to work anywhere as their first job). The other new starters in my job are equally burned out. They started 1 or 2 months before me but I can already see the trajectory they are on. It doesn't help that I've been in lockdown since day one of the job, but even if I wasn't I can see a similar pattern having occured. Younger workers are generally newer and can be bossed around more easily as they have very little power or voice. I can see why burnout happens more with our cohort than the older ones who have made it to management jobs.
I’m unmotivated and fed up with my demanding job but the pays brilliant and it’s one that I can’t leave really due to pay. I cut my days short and dissociate at work
I think there is likely another key reason younger people who aren't married and don't have kids might be more likely to experience burnout: they are delegated more work because they are perceived as having the time and energy for it. I work in healthcare, and 99% of the time if a shift was short staffed, it was the young unattached people who would get asked and often pressured into picking up extra work.
Sarah Brooks You said a-lot right there and revealed a very good point to think about.
Same I’m a nursing student and I’m already feeling the pressure. I feel burnt out completely. It is so draining 😣
Never noticed this until now.. crazy
I'm going through it working at a hospital. Also, me being single at 47 does not help. Even so, being micromanaged does not help
Happens to me all the time
It turns out that people don't liked being worked to death
Trevor Grover Lol
People are not meant to work to death but you obviously live to work instead work to live.
Yeah pussies.
who woulda thunk it?
You don't say🤷
This is what I'm feeling right now. I just started my job and the workload is just enormous. And the deadlines... My god. I'm expected to do my job and learn on the job. Weekends I just end up sleeping all day just to recover from the stress.
me too
How is the work life treating u now?
Did you get through it? I had the same experience and am just about to resign
Totally me a couple months in my ‘new’ job, learning & deadlines have recently compromised my immune system & sick. just glued to my laptop constantly on call. The whole being single with no kids hit home, gets lonely :(
I wonder if burnout begins when I think I have to do multiple tasks all at once. Though that is never how anything works, I feel like it does. I reflect on a project where I had to process nearly a thousand parts. I didn't have a real deadline, although economy still demands timeliness. In the end ever parts experienced its own way through each process and none of those parts where rushed or in a hurry to get to the next step. Rather, if they had any feelings, I'd say those parts enjoyed where they were at each moment and were happily surprised at the result of what they became.
The message: take your time, do what you can, tomorrow will come on its own carrying with it wherever the day is to include. Easier said than done? Certainly. Doable? Absolutely.
Bosses and managers can be much more of a cause than anything. They can turn a great job bad, or make a bad job good.
Couldn't agree more. Everytime I've suffered from burnout it has been due to workplace relationships as the primary cause of my stress. Work is work, there is a right way and a wrong way, relatively black and white. People on the other hand, well let's just say there's a million shades of grey.
You are right, but for me it's just work. My boss is nice and supportive, but he does not understand that the workload is just too much, maybe because he works a lot himself.
I see the same symptoms she described, my motivation to do anything has dropped so drastically, I don't know where to start bc it's just too much.
@@veero8130 y
Same story here. I just don't get it why do you have to suffer for some else company or business.. I joined when there were 2 people in the company i was happy motivated to do a lot... Now with more than 50 people this has become a culture in the company and it sucks so bad.
@@saurabhtyagi939 hmm. Have you tried to talk with your boss, maybe you can change departments or something. If you were there from the start, sure he values you for that.
I work in a huge international company with 200k people working worldwide 😅 there's no hope for change hahaha
I'm literally just a number haha
@@veero8130 what can you ask for that help?
What would the question look like?
I'm too helpful and considerate. Mum always has to remind me that 'you can't pour from an empty cup'. You need to fill yourself up before you can really help others
Always hated that phrase as it typically pours from the lip of an empty cup of another kind easily willing to sacrifice yours for their own
how so?
This has always been a fault of mine, and it seems others -- whether coworkers, employers, family, or ex-spouse-- all took advantage of my generosity.
NO MORE. I am a recovering people pleaser. My last detachment I'm working on is my current job.
I'm dialing back what I give, in direct reflection of what I get in return.
No help from others, no pay raises, no needed time off, no consideration or reciprocation in return-- then I am finished busting my ass for you.
Currently moving closer to family, and seeking work there that pays at least the same, if not a little more, but appreciates me, and at the same time, brings ease and flow and time for myself/my family when I'm off the clock.
No more of this slave labor, energy vampire employment for me.
I haven't had a day off in almost 7 months. I have to force myself to get out of bed every day. At this point I would have to say I am legitimately burnt out.
You have to take oof. Don't do this to yourself
I nearly shot myself after working 60 days 10-12 hours a day in a row. How did you make it to 7 months. I would have quit my job in another fer weeks or so just to get time off. At that point I had enough money to go 3-4 months basically without pay. Plenty enough time to find another job.
@@kkkirytenahtss1 You're right, but let's not put the culpability solely on Daniel.
For the last three years, my office has been short staffed and it has been very difficult to convince the exec/senior level management to allow us greater headcount. Every single person in my office is exhausted, burnt out, and several have quit this year including the QC manager, a buyer, and a planner. My team is currently around half strength and we need 5-6 more people to fill the team and to perform at the level that we are being expected to. Some of us are working late into the night especially now that working from home is allowed.
The management in charge of hiring more people and listening to the concerns of overworked employees have absolutely and unequivocally failed in their duties. It is THEIR responsibility to make sure that we have enough people. My manager can only do so much with the resources that are given to her and she, and the team, need more.
Every day that HR and upper management do not act on this problem is another day where they put their employees in a predicament. That predicament is: Do I A) take time off, get further behind, and cause some of work to overflow to my equally exhausted coworkers, or B) keep working and hope that we get a full team eventually. For me, my choice has usually been B. I've taken 28 days off in the last 43 months. No long vacations, only scatted 1-2 days off here and there. I work on my sick days and I work on my days off for as long as I can handle.
Daniel, myself, and my coworkers could take time off. Absolutely. But there are repercussions to that. It's not as simple as "just take time off" especially when you're dedicated to your job and are chronically overwhelmed for years on end.
Firing abusive/unethical bosses would fix a lot of this.
I'm here 5 years later and totally agree.
How serendipitous. Today is my last day at my current job. The last 6-8 months, I've gone through all 3 parts of burnout. It started with calling out sick more and more because I was too tired to go in. Then I started being more isolated and adversarial at work. I found myself working hard to defend and justify myself from imagined attacks and scrutiny, because I didn't feel like the work I was doing was ever good enough or done at a pace that was satisfactory, but I wasn't able to do any better. I've been here 8 years, and only recently did I start hating and resenting this job. Monday I start a new job. I'm hoping that a new environment will renew my sense of purpose.
Might I ask where your annoying job was?
I been working at McDonald's for 7 years, then Carls Jr for 5.5 yrs.
And I battle alcoholism, pot-usagr (quit both for about 1 year now)....
I have a burglary felony and a DUI from back in 2005. Its harder to get good work
I sympathize. I hope the new start treats you well!
@@n.h.moreno I can only imagine how hard that must be. I wish you well!
Hope the new job turned out to be great!!
@@n.h.moreno but you're still here. Don't give up. Just because you can't find a job. Doesn't mean you aren't worth it
Fast food worker here and I can attest to how much how well you are matched to the job matters. When I'm on the line, I'm perfectly happy. I like doing things with my hands. Stick me on the register...I can't wait to go home.
One of the best things I ever did for myself was quit busting my butt for someone elses profit...quit my job, and work for myself...I can barely survive sometimes (monetarily speaking), but I'd rather be broke and happy than rich and miserable.
Same here. This is hard, too. And I'm also concerned about making ends meet. But honestly, I couldn't make ends meet working for someone else either. I couldn't handle working enough hours to survive. Now I go at my own pase and do my own thing. Life is so much better this way.
@@virglibrsaglove The rat race is much more enjoyable when youre watching from the sidelines lol
@@microbuilder It is. My goal is to buy some land and a tiny house out in the woods and remain very much on the sidelines.
@@virglibrsaglove You and me both (and James Taylor lol)
@@microbuilder Lol, yep. Maybe near the end of 2022. 🤞
I had become seriously burnt-out after 3 years of working at a service station. I found myself became apathetic, sometimes even passively aggressive toward customers. I felt like I wasn't a human anymore but merely a machine. While I was working, I always felt so bored and my mind wanders. After the day's shift done, I felt so used up and had no energy for anything else.
sc0608023 Did you quit ?
This is exactly how I’m feeling and acting now
I feel like that too.
I feel like a robot
Same here. I really enjoyed the job, til coworkers noticed how hard I work, d my tendency to pick up the slack, so they began to do less and less, leaving it for me. I also seem to have a work ethic that isn't seen in many people anymore.
I originally started on one schedule-- as requested, 4 days a week, 6-8 hour shifts, no nights, days only.
Gradually this began to disintegrate, and now my schedule is all over the place some weeks. And more frequently, I'm being given 6 days in a row before a day off ever happens. I'm older now, and dealing with some health issues that affect the amount of energy I have to give toward my job. Overworking me doesn't help.
Lastly, having this crap schedule, I rarely get to spend any family time with my kids or grandkids anymore, because at the end of the day, I've no energy whatsoever left. And days off are spent doing as little as possible, perhaps only laundry, so I'll have work clothes for the next week.
I'm too tired to even walk my dog lately-- and we both need that. And he has noticed my decline.
Fortunately, I'm moving closer to my family this week, and may have a new job in a different setting than my usual retail. However, those two GOOD stressors, on top of my not so good stressor, the current job, all are combining to ramp up my exhaustion level to an all-time high. Triggered the vertigo that is common with vestibular disorders such as mine, and I wound up calling off sick today, because I couldn't even drive safely.
I am exhausted, and tired of feeling tired.
I think another part of the burnout is the sectorization of so many jobs. When one does not see the end result, because they are just a small part of the chain, it is easy to feel that what you do does not have much meaning / make an impact. Boredom, repetition, extreme greed for profits in almost all corporations... "He who has a why can stand almost any how". But if the "why" is not there, the hours feel like an eternity that slips away without meaning
I definitely felt this at my new job as a baker. as soon as I started 2 people went on vacation and another had a surgery all throughout the holidays. I was crying almost everyday after all the stuff I was doing. I never got to experience part time which I'm still listed as and I have overtime. I finally get to relax and just decorate cakes. I almost quit cuz I hardly had any help and was told I was doing something wrong everyday which I wasn't.
That sounds awful, have you talked to your boss about it?
Francis Lai yea but we were so understaffed that I had to keep going. but she did push for me to switch from bread to cakes, which has been calming for my anxiety
Ouch. I hear you, just after starting my job, two people left, a third left just before labor day, then someone went on vacation, and got hurt on said vacation, having to miss the next week, when someone ELSE went on vacation! I don't think I've seen a week with my agreed upon minimum hours- but I've gotten plenty of overtime.
And, to top it off, you can't trust several of the male employees to do their jobs. This place is basically high school, take two. And I've be doing the same thing over two jobs for 9+ years. I need a change.
xRiss13 friend you deserve a vacation leave
@@snakes_shadow3539 what do you want to see when you make that change?
Speaking from recent experience, having a total jackhole as a boss greatly increases the odds of burnout.
It's all 'cause the rent is too god damned high.
😂😂😂
Hell yeah haha
@Abraxis, Here's a tip: Live with your parents for 10 years from when you start working, you'll have enough money for a big down-payment on a house/apartment.
Jose Carreras we don’t all have that option
@@daisylazy5326 Probably not all, but I suspect most (90%) of people do have that option, it's just that they don't want to.
For those that can't live with parents, find a roommate, you can share rent. It's what people in their 20s should do if they want to save money. I know it's shitty to have to live with bad roomates (I've been there) and finding a good roommate can be really hard, but so is everything in life.
Not driving a car is also a good advice, but if you have to drive, drive your family's car.
I myself instead of buying a new car drive my old family's car that has 16 years now. It drives perfectly well. Much cheaper than getting a new car.
There are ways to save money but they all require cutting on luxury most people are not willing to cut.
4 day work weeks also help. It is much easier to work 4 10-hour days than 5 8-hour days when it comes to stress. The 3 day weekend is perfect for reducing stress and makes me more productive at work. Plus a guaranteed weekday off also helps with those errands that are hard to do on weekends like go to the bank. ... *lookin' at employers.*
You realize the bankers are also going to take the day off, right?
Maybe not all on the same day.
And then, why not have the bankers open on saturday and sunday? This system is very complicated already
omg, some employees work Sunday to Thursday, some work Tuesday to Saturday while others keep the Monday To Friday. Some banks do it already. Not that complicated.
Señor Pants but.. but..but... Sabbath day and putting to death and all that. Exodus 31:14-15, 35:2
it mostly has to do with the socio-emotional quality of the environment you're working or living in. take the same amount of work load, in a toxic environment, or one where u feel lonely because u can't really connect with anyone: it's gonna be a struggle. now take the same workload in an environment where you actually find friends, it's gonna be a completely different story.
Exactly
From my mine of work and other in it I've talked to. If you have over bearing supervisors that treat you poorly you burn out faster. It is often called Retired On duty. But if your boss treats you fairly and shows they care and has your back, engages in ideas it happens less often. A study was done on factory workers. The lighting was poor. So the factory bosses tried to fix the lights to increase productivity. After three or four lighting improvements work increased each time. They asked why the workers had improved. And the consensus was "W e complained about the lighting and the company did something." Shocked, because they thought it was the natural lighting and a softer light that was better the fluorescence. But showing you care about employees is the most helpfull.
Yup, I definitely feel burnout. I spent six years studying architecture and now that I have graduated, I don't even feel like working in the industry. During my study years, I feel tired at the end of everyday, the rewards were limited and I didn't think I'm good at it.
It's also related to idiot bosses. I wonder how they test for that?
So true... Especially ones that point the finger when things go bad and take all the credit when things go well.
In the old days people with degrees and leadership skills would be the chosen ones. Now they just pick their friends or who ever they "like" at work. Then its those people that do not know how to supervise. They dont even offer company classes anymore to help teach those skills either. Thats how you get" bosses" not leaders. They treat their employees poorly. I know places where they deny time and days off for doctor appts, surgery procedures, funerals, etc..
My God ... so accurate. Liked my job until we got a new boss. Now I wish for some accident to keep me from work. It's awful.
Trueee i am quitting my job, I am so done with my bully boss
@@brendaechols2228 Even in a fair work environment where people are promoted based on merit, there is the problem that people tend to get promoted until they reach the level where they're incompetent. Adding to the problem is the fact that a lot of work is undervalued (referring to relative pay). People will aim for management positions for the extra pay, even if they're not good at it. That's bad for them and bad for the people they supervise.
This reminds me of another related stress symptom: compassion fatigue. Something all too common in caregiving positions... beit in a professional capacity like a doctor or therapist... but also in the more common - being in the position for someone close to you in some sense (parents, children, SOs, friends, etc.).
There's definitely a sense of burning out after so long trying to do damage control. (I maaay be partly venting here because oh man. Is this my current situation. But I'll spare all the details.)
Why?
Life is made of details. It's how you can define... Anything, really.
So, maybe you just need to tell someone all about it. Or, share a tiny piece with lots of people. So that no single person has to bear everything. But you also get to have so many people share their life back.
Don't burn out. Don't ever give up. Nothing is final, except goodbye.
The autonomy thing is key for me. I need to feel trusted and respected to do my job well. When I am given little autonomy and communication is minimal my performance goes down.
I would expect burn out to be more common in those with lower incomes. Having six side hustles just to make ends meet probably results in serious burn out. Health issues can impact it too. I'm low income, part time shitty retail job and I have health issues I'm battling as well. I know the only way to get out of retail is education, but with my job and my health issues I'm so exhausted I can barely focus on anything during my free time. I'm going to school but it's a struggle and I'm never sure I'm retaining any information because I'm not at 100%
J.J. Shank well duh. Her explanation included high income earners. My comment was mainly due to the complete lack of a comment about low income workers in the video.
lol, when you say "side hustles" it makes it sound like "criminal activity" or "scamming". I'm sure you didn't mean it that way but I found it funny and wanted to share my thoughts for some reason...
if you start feeling sorry for yourself or start making excuses why it's absolutely impossible to change your life around that's the exact reason why your life is as it is. And you need to decide if you want to have people hugging you and pitting you or if you would rather suck it up for a moment, start doing some exercise to get better health and stamina. I've been down that hole myself and lot of friends too - the ones who started the answer with "yeah, but you know I can't because ..." are still there and still complaining. In past decade become fashion to be politically correct and rather lie than hurt somebody feelings and it become perfectly acceptable (if not required) to be absolutely savage and nasty to anyone who is honest and direct = the result: rapidly growing number of people that are oversensitive to themselves, unable to take action when required and desperately searching for excuse why their life is as it is without admitting it's them who are responsible for it... Anyways - get goal, get moving and good luck
+ tzahry, building stamina and willpower is a great thing, but don't discount the benefits of learning to share when you are struggling. Letting other people know or getting counseling can be encouraging and give you just the boost you need to get through it. So I don't think labeling an issue we all may struggle with and making people comfortable with sharing it is a bad thing unless those people then never try to get over their issue.
Jamie that's really important to talk about too. I hope they covered that in other videos already or put together a compilation of similar videos and make more talking about it.
Seems to me like a "job" is rather arbitrary in this context. The brain doesn't differentiate between jobs and just plain lifestyle.
People on the autism spectrum often experience "burnout(whatever you wanna call it is semantics in my opinion)" when we try to fit in in society. Many if us have sensory overload issues and just being social is not exactly effortless as it is with most.
But here is the thing. Its the same symptoms as whats described here. Which leads me to believe its really about over committing yourself, and pushing beyond your limits.
Simone It sucks that allistic society cannot be more accommodating for other people :/ I truly hope that changes
EV Belluche Thank you
Cuzeg Spiked Yea I think most of us on the spectrum know this in some fashion. More or less.
Wish you all the best
I love how you didn't call autism a disease or disability.
RarezplzAJ Thank you.
In my experience, while it *can* certainly be a disability, a lot of that is often us being different than the norm and living in a society built for that norm and not us.
Loud, chaotic environment. Social expectations based on that norm etc.
That is a lot of stress to deal with.
Seriously? Only The Netherlands and Sweden have burnout as an "official" thing?
I live in The Netherlands and i always thought almost all countries also recognize it?
I mean, we even got advertisements from the government to talk about depression etc on TV (a lot) now ....
THATS SO AMAZING!!! I live in Chile and here mental health is not even an issue for most people. If you feel depressed, anxious or stressed out, most people will tell you to grow u and just deal with it, and that makes everyone so sick =( I WISH there was at least some awareness regarding mental health, here even seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist once makes other people think of you as damaged or broken or crazy. For a long time I had a depression that kept me from getting out of my house and even up from my bed, but my parents (and many friends too) told me I had to be responsible and get up, that it was childish to be so lazy. MANY years after I finally got treated and it was so good! Now that I am aware of what mental health is it enrages me how totally oblivious of it our society is. I see sick people everywhere, but because it's "in their heads" they don't think it's worth treating!!
Norway has it too at least. I got really burnt out for a while during my studies last year and my teacher informed me it was considered acceptable sick leave.
damn how envious!
You might be surprised to know that you live in a practical Utopia compared to the rest of this sorry rock
I am really sorry for all of you who not have this.....
Nice to hear Norway has it too, i suspected it already but wasn't sure....
The burn-outs I experienced as a teenager were definitely depression-related, since I was also suffering from severe chronic depression at the time. I also was in a situation where I had very little in the way of day-to-day social support.
try asking call center workers. bet you'd get close to 100% showing symptoms of burnout.
That depends on what call center you work for. The red flag I always look for when considering working for one is if they have mandatory overtime. Overtime pay is nice, but if I'm going to have it forced on me on a steady basis, burnout is inevitable.
YES YES!!! this is what i needed. EPIC VIDEO TODAY!!!!
Oh my gosh this is literally what I am going through right now... I don't have any clinical disorders like depression or anxiety, and everything in this video matches perfectly with what I'm experiencing right now. Thank you SciShow, this as been a therapeutic experience watching this video!
This describes me and my CZcams channel - I love doing it, but man do i relate with a lot of points raised in this video. Thanks Sci-show! :D
his channel is actually huge and it seems to be built entirely from fictional stories read aloud,,, absolutely peculiar that there's so many who wish to listen to fictional audio books of this sort, really innovative job.
Being a You Tuber sounds exactly like being an overworked ER nurse.
This makes sense! I work at a restaurant where we're very short staffed and I have to do 3 different jobs that require alot of work. It's a nightmare when we get super busy...... I doubt myself alot because of this predicament I'm in.
Younger people have elso less experience, and are more easly overwhelmed or will let work owerwhelm them, and their in the phase of choosing what to realy do with their life and in which direction to commit
I’m going through a period of major burnout right now. I work for a very high volume animal hospital and I’m also working on my final externship for vet tech school. On top of that I have my young daughter who is on the spectrum and likely has ADHD as well. I just feel emotionally and physically empty, like there’s no joy in my job anymore, which sucks because I’m just starting out. I don’t know how to get the passion back. Burnout sucks 😢
Jenn12141983 It's a very emotionally and physically draining profession. I only lasted 11 yrs as a tech. I recommend aiming for work at a smaller practice. Or working for a hospital that has "departments", where your job is only one thing, instead of 10 things. It's the demand for ridiculous multitasking in veterinary practices that sets us up for burnout😥
My mom suffers from this. I most likely was on the verge of burnout in highschool (I had more or less all of the symptoms my mom had, but for a shorter time so I wasn't as exhausted). It really sucks, but at least here in Sweden it's classified as a real diagnosis and you can still be on paid leave if you suffer from it because of your work. But still, if it's bad enough it can take years to fully recover.
I have reached this breaking point too many times and now recognize it pretty well. I've also helped others through their own bouts of burnout. I wish it were in the DSM, though.
I'm 98% positive I was suffering this when I quit my last job
EDIT: and I definitely was when I was going to school 3 days a week and working the other 4 for a while there.
ShauntSerelu i've been doing that for 5 years already lol
This was oddly timely, I'm self employed and I've felt very stretched between multiple places lately. Thanks for the helpful info!
brb, emailing this to my boss real quick
At school I study hard. I also make sure I'm at school from 10 to 4 each weekday. But when I'm at home I don't do school work unless there is a tight deadline. This is because I don't want to get a burnout
That's just procrastination excuse. Really, you'll get less burnout if you pace everything out.
In some way it is a procrastination excuse. I always keep procrastinating when I want to get stuff done at home. So I get stressed about it and still not do anything. So i decided to let it go, and now I'm not nearly as stressed which really helps my productivity at school (and therefore overall). And I know that once I start with something I can't get myself to stop. And if I'm always working, and never relaxing a burnout will happen no matter what
If it does work, it works. However, there are other paths available. Yours is one of them, but there are others.
I do kind of the same thing, I try and do not a lot of work at home as possible, I just don't want stress in a place that's meant to be safe. I stay an hour after school everyday do to homework and studying.
However, I have by exams coming up so i'm gonna have to work at home now.
This answers many questions. When I look back on my career over the past 2 or 3 years I can now explain what I was going through.
I'm starting to become more and more convinced that Google is psychic. This was recommended to me after a really shitty day at work where I almost got fired.
All of this really hits home with me. It’s like you’re describing my life. I’m wondering where the line is between burnout and other mental health issues such as depression though? Seems to have a lot of overlap?
very timely video, as I've been trying to get help for running a business while having a mental illness. Burnout is pretty much constant!
Used to be a vet tech. What this video outlines is *exactly* what happened to me after 11 years😓
Great episode! Burnout is also extremely common among animal advocates and rescue volunteers.
Your way of presenting information is so dang good. Keep it up.
I need to show this video to my boss.
In the parking lot at work he likes to burnout his car. All that noise and smoke, so annoying. I *tire* of his shenanigans.
I love you.
Justin *Tread* lightly, my friend.
Hey, don't worry, with a little rest, you'll just rubber band right back!
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I can actually see how this also relates to relationships as well
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Many people have no grasp about how devastating burn-out can be. It can destroy one’s ability to do a job they once loved to the point that they actually leave a career and have to start over doing something else.
Yup I’m in accounting and this past week I have been so tempted to just walk away from everything. I just feel so burnt out and on the weekends I’m just so mentally exhausted that all I do is sleep.
i may have missed any statement on this, but i have noticed that in those suffering from burn out, they will tend to feel that even though they have accomplished a task(what ever that job task may be) they feel that it wont have worth in the "big picture". So, as an example, a student who pushes hard to get through Grad School, but begins to feel the affects of the long list of different classes they have to have high grades in, in order to achieve their diploma, may feel after a certain point in the progress that its not worth the hassle. Another example is workers. I know from talking to multiple people, both in my line of work and friends/mutual acquaintances, that if they are put to a repeated task, and though complete it every day, have it return to be done the next day(and so-forth) they tend to lose the motivation to do the task. almost in a form of Sisyphus. Repeating the same task, to accomplish it, and to come in and do it AGAIN and AGAIN. It could have some correlation to endorphins. The initial feeling from finishing the task and having the "i did it!" rush, wears over time. Soon the same task that gave you the Rush of "i did it!" becomes a "meh" due to it being just the same tasks, nothing new to it. Just a thought...
As an introvert, I've suffered burnout of both education (university) and a job (financial planner). Both times had me without my usual small network of support.
And yet, no matter how much I do it.. I never burn out on CZcams.
Same!
I love my job. It isn't my dream job, but that's why I'm going to school again. But I genuinely enjoy my job when I think about it.
However, there have been many, many days when I've been headed to work and thought, "God, I hope I break my leg on the way. I would rather break my leg than go to work today," or, "I wouldn't even care if a car hit me right now. I wouldn't have to go to work if a car hit me." Which are alarming reactions for having to go to work. I feel guilty about it, or disingenuous, because I know I like my work. I love making people's day better, I love coffee, I even love cleaning. But god damn if I don't dread going more days than not lately.
If you work in a health profession then one of the easily accessible ways to deal with burnout is remembering what you're doing it for. A researcher recently made a breakthrough curing an otherwise intractable skin condition in a child that could have been fatal if left unchecked, her words after is that "all things prior to that moment were made up for after having solved the child's problem". The one person you can save from cancer is the one that matters.
And it is. Having completed work gives you access to the completed work, just look back on it.
I’m late to this channel but I have to say I love Brit Garner’s voice. Relaxing and informative but no so much that I drift off. Excellent overall presenter for the topic.
Workload, reward, and mission. Very insightful.
I would LOVE to see an update to this video now that this is a diagnosis here in the US!!
I thought it was called burn out because a lightbulb burns out from being on for too long.
I got stuck in a extremely toxic cycle where I knew work was burning me out, and my mother convinced me otherwise. I ended up being extremely mentally unwell for nearly a year.
Been there a couple of times. When you don't feel appreciated, you start to feel worthless and wonder why you even bother coming in. Had a couple jobs say things like, "No one is irreplaceable," and "You don't need appreciation, that's what getting paid is for." I've chosen My own mental, and physical, well-being over a steady pay check. I've literally almost died from bad jobs.
I could relate to most of this during seventh grade, especially during the second semester. There started to be more and more homework, and so I was working for at least half the day. In order to manage my time better, I started going in for lunch to work and it took a while just to get a few math problems done. I thought that lunch was just an inconvenience, so I started skipping lunch in order to get work done... which was barely touched by the end. I started thinking that my hobby was also an inconvenience to work, so I stopped Truck Spotting for 3-4 weeks. I was always finding myself dreading spending another afternoon cooped up inside instead of going Truck Spotting on state Route 3. I was beginning to become easily distracted and my energy always felt sapped. I thought Breaks were inconvenient too, so I stopped taking breaks as well. Since work was taking longer for me to do, I was also staying up past 10:30 in order to get it done. One night, in order to make a last ditch effort to finish a project, I stayed up until about 1:00 AM. One of my friends said that he could stay up till 2 doing work and be fine, so I started wondering if I was working long enough. It felt like a cycle that was only going to get worse, and then spring break came along and I was free for about a week. Then, the same thing happened in the 4th quarter, which was what I was hoping wouldn’t. I hope that 8th grade is less stressful than 7th... I know that you adults out there have more to worry about than excessive schoolwork, and I want to be strong enough to be able to handle your situations without taking rest breaks and burning out.
This made me feel a little better, I've been severely burnt out after only working for 8 months, I'm single and young, and after my previous job (1year and 4months) burnout, I took 7 months off, so the fact that I'm already burnt out makes me feel absolutely pathetic (in comparison to my previous job, my coworkers and manager are wayyy better, however the emotional, social, and mental demands are way higher).
For context, I'm a nurse, and my previous job was in surgery, so my patients were asleep. My current job is on a regular med surg floor, so I'm dealing with patients and their mood swings/panic attacks/selfishness/needy/assholes/perverts, not to mention the dementia patients that you never know how they'll react, some are combative, scared, confused, and then there's drug seekers, people who are looking to sue, family drama, family/patient who think they know more than doctors, harassment, creepy flirting, patients dumping their past trauma and issues or even telling you literal crimes they've done, ect.
Basically we deal with the worst part of people, whether due to pain/entitlement/anger/anxiety/dementia or they're just a terrible person, and it's extremely exhausting. Also there's rude doctors and other hospital staff.
And while you might read this and go wow yeah that's understandable that you're burnt out, but I just feel pathetic because can't handle it anymore while so many nurses do it for their whole life just fine, plus have kids and all these other responsibilities while my only responsibility is work.
I don't know what to do, I'm applying for a leave of absence but even doing that makes me feel pathetic and like I'm doing something wrong.
Did you manage to turn it round?
"You don't even need to have a job!" ~talking about students
I get that being a student isn't technically classified as a "job", but I would definitely not describe it as being unoccupied either.
You have X amount of class a week, next to that you need to work after hours to process your courses, and all of that while being evaluated every so often. That sounds a lot like a "job" to me, certainly if all the hours a students spends working add up to more than a full time week on average...
OMG this was my thesis in college! So relieved to know that it was a real thing and all my research connected to it held up!
Stunning Video for Everyone to Watch. The BEST Video on Stress & Burnout I have EVER COME ACROSS!!
Feel like this will be a popular video.
What you have to know is that you can take your own piece of the cake as well as they are taking theirs. If the workload is overwhelming you can leave the situation more often.
Stress has an inversely proportional effect on a person's lifespan
6 colleagues left in 3 months. Team leader resigned yesterday.
Took the 6th 7th 8th and 9th days of sick leave myself in 12 years over the last 2 weeks.
I'm in the cynicism and ethacacy stage.
Trying to spend annual or long service leave (near 700 hours available) but upper management keep rejecting my requests and moving my shifts around the clock.
All my friend coworkers left between covid started and now.
Only reason I'm still here is because mortgage.
Tell us something we don’t know. The question isn’t “Why”, it’s how to stop work burnout. Get a new job, or learn to say no to too much on your plate! Then take small breaks, meditate daily and delegate what you can. Your time is valuable and can never be gotten back. If employers don’t value their employees lives then it’s time to look out for your own well-being.
Huh, that's how I've felt before quitting every job I've ever had...
I'm so happy burn-outs are recognised in my country. Otherwise I don't think my father would still have his job. He has not been able to work for several weeks now and has to take strong medication :(
According to Sigmund FRAUD, there's one thing that will always be more overwhelming than work.
Incestuous desire.
Full kudos for the cleverness in your comment.
Sigmund was a pervert who was in love with his mother.
Haha
I see no reason why that sentence is fraudulent ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
L Galicki Band freud facts
There's no combination of words in the queen's English that can quantify my scathing, pure, unadulterated and uncompromised hatred for my job. Don't ever pursue a career in physical therapy
someone might want to give this video to EVERY SINGLE FACTORY IN OHIO!!!
roguedogx Sounds like you know something a lot of us don't. I'm sorry to hear that about Ohio - maybe you can be the one to spread the word to your community? :)
All the best ~
What I find funny is when people who work in an office complain about being stressed or 'burned out'. They aren't the ones who have to slog it out on a sales floor or work in a manufacturing plant; all they have to do is sit in an office.
Before I moved into an office, I worked in our foundry. From the second they turn on the phones I am bombarded with calls. In-between calls I am trying to catch up on emails and never ending paper work. On top of all that, you have customers and reps taking their frustrations out on you and other corporate BS. Trust me, the mental work is very stressful and tiring.
@@sethkael9839 So is having to walk a mile a day on a sales floor. At least office employees get to sit down.
@@infinitecanadian I remember having to stand all day and how my feet killed me. Now it' s my rear from sitting in front of a computer and phone all day. You cannot win my friend. That's the point of this video; doing too much work is exhausting.
@@sethkael9839 Oh, but I can win. I have been trudging along for the better part of 20 years. The only time I have gotten to sit down on the job was just within the last few months to print labels.
My workplace is pure evil; the demands and expectations placed on us is unreal.
Being an independent IT professional, I see this everywhere, especially in the social services field! I often joke (although Im certainly not qualified) that free counseling services are included in your services from us.....cause sometimes you just need to vent to someone you trust and barely know.
This is why people need to push enrichment, always be learning and doing new things, even change careers every few years if needed. Gotta keep the brain active, and doing the same thing over and over, the brain literally shuts down those sections.
04:36 UNO stakes are already high enough without roping particupants into being liable for my job performance, thank you very much.
You know when you can't remember things you emailed to someone a few weeks ago, can't remember conversations past a few days and don't look away from your screen hardly for more than a quick drink of water that you're working too hard. Even with "regular" hours, the brain on overclock mode just ends up turning into a blank slate with a blank stare and blank expressions xD
Anyone else watching this in the parking lot of your shitty full time job 15 minutes before you’re supposed to clock in lol
People with kids and family experiencing less burn out isn't from having people to lean on. It's because going to work is like a vacation from the hell of raising kids...
Thanks for video
I teach 50 kids
Grade 3
Too many kids
Too much work
Too exhausting
Definetly had this last month. I had to study a LOT to pass an exam and finally pass the last class of my university degree. I live a log way from my family and my friends had other things in mind or lived really far. Even if they were there online, it was hard.
I was wondering if you guys would possibly do an episode on 40 hour work weeks and whether or not they are the most effective or not. I'm very interested.
I didn't know I was burnt out for the longest time. I just thought I was using my mental illness as an excuse to be lazy. I used to get burnt out within a month of starting a new job. I'd do great, employers would love me, then I'd hit rock bottom and never come back up. Now that I'm at a job that doesn't drain me (both mentally and physically) I haven't felt it in a whole year.
And you're right, a huge contributor was not having any sort of support system to open up to after a hard day of work, or anything else for that matter. Being alone and overworked do not mix.
A lot of good information in a short space of time. Like it.
I even work the weekends, if not working I worry about tomorrow's work. I did not take a single day off for 2 years
Wtf 👀👀 2 yrs no days off ?
OMG, you can ask nurses what exhaustion from overworked is. Its terrible: stress, headache, anxiety, agitation, insomnia ect....
Love this video! Thank you for sharing.
Employers don’t backfill positions when someone is out on leave or sick. So they decide to dump that person’s workload in the existing team members who already have a ton on their plate.
This explains why a lot of our military is miserable and why usually most people who are married and/or have kids tends to reenlist more often.
I burned out at 25, mainly because I was feeling so much pressure to achieve everything perfectly before that "dreadful number". People kept calling me lazy for not being a doctor (I'm mostly an artist) although I always dive deep into whatever I love doing. I had to do a lot of work on myself to get out of this but I eventually did it, even though I'm still prone to falling into the same pitfalls over and over. At least, I can still realize it and stop before I go in too deep. Burning out is well-known but yet, still so misunderstood.
I am a newly graduated psychologist and am just about to resign from my first job. It's only been 3 months, but I feel like its been a full year. The workplace is very stressful and the demands are very high. The turnover in the job is extremely high because the company is very top heavy so all the managers are being paid high salaries but not producing income, so they are forced to endlessly hire new workers who can produce income (and who are desperate to work anywhere as their first job). The other new starters in my job are equally burned out. They started 1 or 2 months before me but I can already see the trajectory they are on. It doesn't help that I've been in lockdown since day one of the job, but even if I wasn't I can see a similar pattern having occured. Younger workers are generally newer and can be bossed around more easily as they have very little power or voice. I can see why burnout happens more with our cohort than the older ones who have made it to management jobs.
Just found the Maslach Burnout Inventory exam and took it...I am servery close or experiencing burnout...
Basically why I dropped out and my life has been a downward spiral ever since.
I’m unmotivated and fed up with my demanding job but the pays brilliant and it’s one that I can’t leave really due to pay. I cut my days short and dissociate at work