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Feb. 26th, 2007 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
growler_southNew york magazine has a great article on burnout. I always assumed it was something like a nervous breakdown only with less crying, but it turns out I was mistaken. It's what happens when your expectations dont meet reality in a work situation: Working too hard for not enough reward, appreciation, or results. Increasing efficiency only to find that the workload expands to fill available capacity. Working in a job where you are opposed to the values. Resentment grows, depersonalisation occurs, and the next thing you know you're cursing the job you used to love.
That would be me, then. Interesting.
Oh, and I loved this quote:
Maslach has always contended that burnout says more about the employer than it does about the employee. “Imagine investigating the personality of cucumbers to discover why they had turned into sour pickles,” she famously wrote in 1982, “without analyzing the vinegar barrels in which they’d been submerged!”
Though I'm not sure I'm an entirely sour pickle just yet...
That would be me, then. Interesting.
Oh, and I loved this quote:
Maslach has always contended that burnout says more about the employer than it does about the employee. “Imagine investigating the personality of cucumbers to discover why they had turned into sour pickles,” she famously wrote in 1982, “without analyzing the vinegar barrels in which they’d been submerged!”
Though I'm not sure I'm an entirely sour pickle just yet...
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Date: 2007-02-26 11:18 am (UTC)When it's time, it's time. Nice to have a better understanding of why, too.
You have plenty going for you, and lots of great ideas for your next adventures. No doubt that whatever you do, it'll be superlative!