Software Burnout Is for Real
Yesterday, when I was returning from work in public transit, I felt very tired. I decided to do remote the next day.
The evening passed quite joyfully. I played with my kid. We enjoyed Netflix on the couch. I had an extra hour of sleep for the next morning.
But today turned out extremely intense. I had a difficult time coordinating meetings, advising my peers and taking guidelines from seniors.
The remote didn’t work as expected. I should have been at the office to ease up some stress.
Or so I thought.
Because I knew, deep down, that remote wasn’t the problem. Nor it was the solution to the problems I faced even being at the workplace.
Software Is the New Blue Collar:
The term white-collar has historically been used to describe a person doing the work that requires mental efforts rather than physical.
It is a fact with which every union workingman is familiar, that his most bitter despisers are the petty underlings of the business world, the poor office-clerks…who, because they are allowed to wear white collar….regard themselves as members of the capitalist class.
— Upton Sinclair, Pulitzer winner politician who coined the term “white collar” (1919)
