And while it can feel horrible and all-consuming, burnout is also fixable. It’s considered to be a result of stressful jobs that cross beyond our ability to cope with them. Recognizing the difference between work and work culture isn’t always easy, but it’s worth doing so that we don’t mistake the negatives of work culture for work itself.Īnd likewise, it’s worth learning to recognize the difference between a truly unfulfilling career or job (work itself) and solvable problems like disenchantment and burnout (side effects of work culture).īurnout is a real and significant psychological condition that can arise from unhealthy work circumstances, and I’m convinced that it’s what I’ve been feeling this year - the anxiety and dread, the lack of motivation, the negativity, the feeling of exhaustion. Work lets us create things and contribute value to the world. It gives us purpose and connection to other people. Whereas work itself is something that most of us crave. Those are all artifacts of work culture, which has evolved in western society into a fairly unhealthy thing. And people are always trying to steal our staplers.īut the interesting thing is that none of those factors is inherent to work itself, or even inherent to work done on behalf of other people. The pressure to be increasingly productive only gets worse with each passing year. Work these days is less fulfilling than in the past (blame the industrial revolution and the advent of soul-sucking factory jobs for that, so says this TED Radio Hour). For many of us pursuing financial independence and early retirement, it’s a near passion to talk about how eager we are to leave work.
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