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I don't think it's a burnout. Also six days is not much.
Before, i liked working 24/7 too but that's in good times. When everything goes right - it's doable. It even gives energy. But when it goes wrong - you raised the bar of expectation quite high for yourself. My regex parser was making me a bit crazy too. Fundamental issues stood coming. Now i decided if I do minimal one per day (the issues are always quite hard, tested well, with much tests) it'll be fine too. Why regex has many flavours became very clear to me. There's one thing i know it doesn't validate and i won't fix it. It's stupid and would rape the application. It's validating "pppp" with `p*ppp`. There are other ways to write that p*p{3,} works. Makes more sense. It does validate "ppp" with p*p tho. And that was technically already quite a thing. I can talk endless about regex validation. Regex is a kinda CSS
Hint: I don't know anyone who uses malloc and experienced a burnout. Just sayin' -
@retoor while it could be an acute stress event, typical signs of chronic or cumulative workplace stress (burnout) include sleeping problems, isolation, irritability, mood swings, etc…
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@retoor nooooo this is it. this is making me so happy.
I don't think the length of time matters
I've literally been too chill all my life to have ever experienced burnout. also I basically win everything or can't be arsed to do it. people told me there must be something wrong with me with how apathetic I am, or they certainly treat me like that often and others said apathy is a sign of brain damage
I think literally apathy is in my personality and just nothing made me care enough for me to bother to put in any effort. IM SO EXCITED
I now understand so much
I've worked 16-20 hours days for months or 1.5 years before. nothing! lol, but that's why people were trying to pull me away
actually I had to learn emotions from an abusive relationship as a teenager. like I legit dated the guy knowingly and I liked the ride and I'm very thankful for him being a piece of shit because it totally changed my understanding of life, emotions to be so amazingly different after. SO EXCITED -
The cause for burnout is where a person experiences constant stressors, yet is unable to cope with the amount of constant stress.
Think of a garden where weeds grow every day. In order to keep a healthy garden, you must pull weeds every day. If you have the garden the size of 1000 acres, chances you won’t be able to pull all those weeds every day. Whether you unintentionally or intentionally let weeds take over your garden, the garden will slowly die, AND it’s going to be harder to pull all the weeds the more you don’t get around to it. -
@retoor I don't mind getting stuck in rabbit holes coding. see that doesn't stress me out! I just do all that meticulously because I'm curious
and actually I have a really tough time completing things because I never care about outcomes. so I just code because I wanna figure out how it works, and for jobs it was because somebody asked and that's what they're paying me for
but I don't actually care
this. is amazing. I think my ego got wrapped up in my own competence and then that's the motivational drive. I'm gonna bottle this and cultivate it and use it on so much. fuckyeah
I can see how it could "burn you out" now 🤣
DID I MENTION SO EXCITED?!
SO EXCITED
AAAAAAAAA
I COULD CARE ABOUT OUTCOMES NOW PROBABLY. NEED TO SLEEP ON IT AND DIGEST IT FOR A COUPLE DAYS BUT GODDAMNIT IM SO EXCITED
I now understand why rich business men get drunk and go gambling. the service is to feel like shit, cuz nothing else quite does that spiritual experience -
@Lensflare if you exit you're burned!
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@jestdotty whoopsie!
think I had my first burnout
so exciting
I couldn't sleep last night and obsessively worked all day. couldn't pay attention during dinner / relaxing before sleep with people. everyone went to bed, I didn't. ended up getting up and working then trying to sleep, repeat, like 6 times. morning came, neighbours running saws and shit, eventually slept 2 hours then 1.5 hours, if even. then worked more. good morning. fuckit. then got really pissed at everything for like 4 hours and wanted to be left alone any time a person got close to me, BUT KEPT WORKING, stressing. until I realized holy shit I'm fucking miserable
now I think I'm crashing
IM SO EXCITED. I've never been so obsessed about my own incompetence at something before. I've never had this. this leads me to believe all burnout is due to people trying to fight their incompetence maybe?
people always tell me I work too much and all that but I never understood cuz I like it. maybe this is what they meant though. in which case I'm mad at all of them for incorrectly identifying my emotional state in the past grrrrr. cuz they'd use that as an excuse to rope me into doing things I didn't even find enjoyable because supposedly it was "good for me" but I thought it was fucking lame. fucking hell
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