[Open Eyes]

https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/How...d-Out-44556503

This is a good article that shares the signs one may be experiencing a burn out.

[eskielover]

Yes, I can relate 5o this. In 1993, the project I really enjoyed working ended & there was no place on the new project available (smaller project). The company moved another 30 minutes away from where I lived but there were no other aerospace openings in other companies either. Aerospace computer engineering was dying in So. Calif & the business sector didnt want to hire high paid aerospace engineers they would have to retrain even those willing to take a lower salary.

I ended up in the policies & procedures group & felt like NOTHING but a high paid glorified secretary. Hated the position but was trapped thete by the director who I found never let go of anyone he got into his directorite. I excelled & even got the proposal I did for a national conference topic accepted...while I honestly knew that I just threw buzz words together withput knowing anything about what I was talking about.

I barely made it to Christmas break & couldn't go back after the first of the year. I kept calling in sick & my medical GP was checking out everything. Mid January we had a major earthquake in the area, destroying the roads & the valley I had to drive through to get to work....that gave me a little breathing room. However I had to go back to expend any medical leave of absense. My neighbir worked at the same Co, so I rode with him. Bith days I managed to go in after the earthquake, it took 6 hours just to drive one way. All I did at work was sit in my private office & cry.

By that point it was a combination of burn out & a breakdown together.

I had been working long hours before that but enjoyed what I was doing. I think that the knee surgery & all the PT I did in 1989/90 just so I could skii 6 months after the surgery & play racquetball again took a lot more out if me than I realized. That was the start of my downhill spiral. The company I had been working at when I had the surgery had the AirForce contract I was working on cancelled. I was so exhausted I couldn't even look for a job for awhile. Then I got an offer that I just couldn't take....no energy to handle the requirements of a new job. Ended up going back to a previous company & previous contract that had new things added to it & started hiring again. It was that contract that ended just before total burnout & my breakdown happened.

I never did recover from it because hiring had come to a hault in the area....& the bad marriage took over where the job burnout ended so it turned into marriage burnout only I was really trapped in that.

I think burnout is bad but when you are physically trapped it is (like the director who wouldn't alliw me to transfer into an engineering position when one opened up, or financially trapped in the bad marriage) TRAPPED makes evwry burn out even worse that it woukd be normally.