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From Workplace Burnout

Some people just have bad karma when it comes to finding jobs they enjoy. Are you a person who has a pattern of finding jobs in which you burn out quickly? Do you spend a lot of time asking yourself questions? Is it me or is the organization? The truth is that you may burn out quickly because you haven’t found your true profession.

Workplace burnout affects many workers. This article examines reasons why you might be addicted to workplace burnout and identifies a few remedies for this pattern. Your goal should be finding the right balance between work life and personal life.

What is workplace burnout? Essentially, it is an overwhelming dissatisfaction with your daily job. You get tired of performing your critical job tasks. The sources of burnout vary. For example, you might be tired of the routine nature of assignments. You might hope for a promotion or an increase in pay and become impatient when hard work does not produce this result. Another possibility is that you crack under the pressure of the workload or lots of overtime. Regardless of the source of burnout, it is a powerful feeling that diminishes effectiveness and erodes satisfaction in coming to work each day.

What are some reasons why you might be prone to burnout? It might be that you feel work burnout from grueling hours or a heavy workload is your badge of honor. Perhaps burnout assures you that you are successful. Do people look up to you as the solid-as-a-rock individual who lives and breathes for the organization? Some companies even reward employees who work extra hard and perform more than they should according to their job description.

Be honest with yourself about why you are feeling burned out. Take the time to assess whether you are in a temporary situation or that you are repeatedly guilty of addiction to burnout on the job.


What are the remedies if you determine that you derive satisfaction from being unhappy at work? Recognition is the first step to finding the right balance between work and personal life. What can you do about it? You can look at how you spend your time at work and how you spend time at home. Then you can revamp your priorities. You can build better boundaries between what you commit to accomplish at work and what you commit to other people and yourself outside of work. Use self-discipline to manage your schedule so that at work you are as effective as possible and that the end of the day finds you leaving work behind.

The next step is to reinvent your attitude about work. You can commit to performing the best you can. You can derive satisfaction from work effectiveness, but you can learn to be content with the job well done. Over the course of your work life, you may become addicted to job burnout again. At that point, you might be able to recognize the signs better.

Job burnout is a feeling that is not really necessary to enjoy your job or to get ahead in your company. Focus on positive feelings and real sources of satisfaction. Work will be a better place to spend your forty-hour week.

by Grady