I went to a jobfair today and talk to about 80 employers. Interesting opportunities abound. I’m an introvert,so being around all those people (the job seekers and potential employers) I went there exhausted (I hadn’t slept well the night before) and I also didn’t eat properly for lunch, resulting in me being burned out by the time I got home.
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6 responses to “what causes you to get burned out? Why?”
Taking on too much projects, too much deadlines, and too much things to remember wear me out.
When I have too much on my plate I feel overwhelmed. Things like paying bills or work deadlines don’t bother me, those things I have to do and I do them. It’s the extras that wear me out. The extras don’t need to be done, but they are things that I want to do for a variety of reasons. These extras float around throughout my day and they must be fit in when I find the time between the other things that I need to do.
Yard work in the hot sun will do me in physically. Being a natural Californian, I am not used to having to hydrate and drink water as often as it is needed in the Arizona heat in the Valley of the Sun. Sometimes, I have to put it off until about 9:00 pm at night on the days that it gets up around 112 to 124 degrees. At least, at night, it will get down to 94 degrees. I can not put it off, now that I have a garden. The plants have to be rescued from the heat. We have a mesquite tree in the front yard that is always dropping pods, or tiny leaves. I knew when I started visiting Immortal Pirate years ago, he doesn’t like to do yard work. I love yard work, so it is my job. I get to a point of suffering from dehydration and nearly pass out. That is the time that Immortal Pirate will check on me, bring me a drink, and help me finish up with sweeping and putting tools away. I’m not young anymore and I get tired easily.
The other thing that burned me out was when I was packing up my furniture and belongings after the sale of my house. The buyer was pressuring me to get out of the house. He called me every day to ask if I had moved out, yet. He visited to physically get in my face and shout at me to hurry up and get out of his new house. As if that wasn’t taxing enough on my patience, my renter/roommate was livid with rage and screaming at me venting her rage every time she laid eyes on me. If I got up to use the bathroom and she heard a floor board creek, she would fly out of her room for a screaming rant session. She was livid about my selling the house and her not able to find another place to live. I had not given her enough notice and she was screaming about “renter’s rights” and how she was going to take me to court and sue me. THEN, the next door neighbor was going to have to move his motor home out of my driveway and find a place to park it —- and he would have to start paying to park it. That was not my fault that I had let him park that motor home for free for the last 10 years, and now he had to move it. But, every time he saw me, he gave me the same angry rant and made our friendship non-existant. Those last days were hell on me. By the time it was nearly time to move, the moving van crew called and asked me if I could move a day early. My raging angry renter/roommate had locked me out of my house and I was at wit’s end. The moving company wanting to come a day early made me break down and cry tears of thankfulness. I was falling apart emotionally. Because my roommate/renter was so horrid with her anger, it was with total glee and laughter that I had the water, cable TV, electricity, and gas TURNED OFF!!! On moving day, I was ready to hit her when my roommate told the moving van crew to move their truck and all of my things off of the lawn, because they were “in her way”. I almost went for her throat, but the moving crew started laughing —- like they thought she was joking. When they saw she was not joking, they explained that they have work to do and a schedule to keep. They did not have time for her scream-fest. I was as fed up as I have ever been in my life. I was completely burned out. When the moving van pulled away and I got into my car to drive to Arizona — for the last time — it was with sheer joy that I did not bother to say good-bye to ANYONE. I cried tears of relief and got excited to drive that last drive across the deserts and mountains to my new life with Immortal Pirate.
The ATF, because I’m Jesus……..
Too many complicated loads in short order. That means “short-haul” which it seems most truckers prefer. And “complicated” means tarped, high-stacked, irregular or complex tie-downs.
I just did one today that was a tire press broken down into 13 components. They were all different sizes and weights. Making sure everything of differing heights was safely secured for on-road driving took almost the whole day. Up and down and up and down off the trailer. Trying things, them not working, trying something else. I am just so burned out right now — and I have a 2,000 km trip to Sydney NS ahead of me to do in two days with just 20 hours left on my weekly clock and a truck governed at 105 kph! (any traffic or weather will incur late delivery fees!)
Doing anything too long can burn me out, but I excel at hyperfocusing. So, for instance, I can quickly study an area, master it, but that will involve the fact that I can sit down and work on one thing for very many hours, day after day, week after week.
Part of the way to do this is to be able to watch yourself, try and do that which is most entertaining to you, if that is possible, and be willing to take breaks and stop.
The trick, I have found, is to be able to get back up again.
Anyone can, say, work out for four hours intensely, for instance. But, then, they have to rest. And once they are resting, it can be very difficult to do four hours working out again the next day.
You need the power of acceleration, in other words.
If you work very intensely, you will need to be able to stop that great inertia. And then, you need to be able to build it up again very quickly.
In some endeavors I see where people are able to sustain the inertia of work, but then, when they stop, it is a complete breakdown, and they can not get going again.
5 years ago i could run all day, between kiddo and jobs, and still have steam at the end for a good work out.
now im like hahahaha i have to do more than 2 things today? cant even
taking on too much in a day just wears me out now. which is fine. im learning how to go slower.
its my day off. ive already gone to store, gotten laundry in and have a few other things looming and now i want to curl up and hide. but ima push through and try not to have crazy eye all day while i do it