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CBT - cognition based therapy. You can search for burnout + cbt therapy e.g.

Depending on symptoms the program can be longer.

Can you please elaborate? :) Thanks

- I didn't tell my team because I didn't have the energy to. They called me and asked what's wrong. Then I took 3 months off. Then got back with 25% basically staring at a screen doing nothing then walk home. I did this for another month.

- Summer came. - I started therapy and joined a group that helped me understand my behaviour of perfectionism etc. Most helpful 12 week programme.

- I played video games to offload my brain, as I couldn't focus or read text

- I started painting also - was awful at school hated drawing etc, but turned out together with video games it was the only thing that could put off that load on my brain.

- I basically took a stance to never go back again to IT. It didn't work out though but I'm in a more aware situation and don't put too much load on myself. Another thing is that I realised it's just not for me to code, to keep worrying about systems, wondering what might break etc. I'm really more of a practical guy.

- So right now I'm trying to shift my focus where I can recognize my strengths first. Being at a desk is not really that, and that's hard to realize though.

Burnout is really...your overheated engine in the car. You can't use it. At least that's how it was for me.

I could write a lot more but DM if you need anything.

This is just inflation of knowledge work. We all have that paper turning guy at the office pre pandemic. Now it’s just evident how many that don’t perform any value

I think that the SWE will converge towards more memorization - which is fine as it's a craft. Our craft will be like plumbers, carpenters etc.

"I wish I had practiced law for the past 7ish years instead, because at least all of my skills would still be relevant"

This.

I always code as specifically and practical as possible. Whenever I hear someone let's do this as general as possible - the junior dev bell rings.

Awesome!

I think you just explained the cause of inflation :)

id like to see a ct scan of the brain using these devices

I advise to check out r/antiwork. Thanks for sharing your story. Good to have these once in a while.

Why do you think people do that? Self-realisation?

The complexity has also grown from our demands as field / market. It's nice to deploy in a container but debugging is not really easier when relying on a complicated cluster compared to traditional servers.

I think expectations to deliver 'the best' solution is driving this. Rather than accept the fact that system can fail and requires restarts etc, we build overly complex systems just to handle those edge cases.

Well said! So maybe less people will become devs given this future ?

So what's changed?

yes!

Oh God another one

you got it!

Facebook as a technology is inherently damaging, it's not just the users who make up the platforms. How many senate hearings do they need...lol

Humans first. How about that for an idea.

am I the only one with TLS error?

Software engineers need more rigid structures and stop thinking they're in a park trying out new technologies!

Why imitate? Big tech also run projects to track us and ruin our lives...so

Yea so in the end being street smart always beat book smart.

Sounds like passive aggressive programmers you got

Tell them we live in a fake world

That's not a sport - it's called programming

Might as well stop the whole damn thing :). For the better internet health

Everything must come to an end, even for Facebook. We didn't think Altavista or Myspace would "die" either..

Also common public property was sold during 90s and large amount of property requires now a mortgage. This has not helped the rental market. Instead now people are controlled by the banks instead. You lose your job, you lose your mortgage and life. Oppressive system.

Guess a variation of that could work, I reckon it's gonna be some Excel work and analysis, holding presentations etc. Maybe if there's a product responsibility without too much administration stuff.