There’s 3 Types of Burnout. Here’s How to Overcome Them
Avoid neglect burnout by exploring your curiosity.
If you want to understand just how bad job burnout can get, consider the story of Melissa Sinclair, an employee at Time Out New York.
Melissa rose to internet fame in the weeks after Time Out New York inadvertently posted an employment listing on the job-search site Indeed that detailed her current unmanageable workload.
The post explains, “Currently, we have an agreed budget of $2,200 per issue for a freelance Photo Editor, 10 hours work at $22 p/h, which would normally be completely fine, however, the issue is that Melissa physically cannot find good enough candidates to fill these freelance positions, and at the current rate of magazine production, she needs multiple people available to work in multiple cities, simultaneously.
Because she can’t find people for these freelance positions, she’s been forced to do all of this work herself and is currently completely swamped and overwhelmed.”
Unfortunately, a lot of people reading the posting can probably relate. Fifty percent of Americans say they are constantly drained by work — a figure that’s nearly tripled since 1972, according to the 2016 General Social Survey, an annual sociological survey conducted each year…
