Actually I don't. Being self-employed I just get paid for the amount of time I spend on working (within the reasonable boundaries, ofc), so when I really need I just take an unpaid sick leave for a day. Tell them I'm ill. They don't need to know, that's more of a mental healing than physical healing what I need.

@devTea For now I just requested 2 months of unpaid leave. I need a break, but current position has its benefits. Salary is one thing. The other is that I am specialized in a narrow field within the company, and there's not many people who can do it, so it's really difficult to substitute me.

It's just the current project that's killing me and made me quite burned out. Tons of incompetent people without ability to learn or think independently. Just 2 guys who know their shit, sentenced to solve all the problems of the other ones and correcting their code / rewriting it from scratch. You can't leave them out of your sight for a moment, it's a freaking kindergarten. Oh, and now the other guy just went on 2-week holiday, so I'm alone now, YAY.

If they won't give me this 2 months leave, I definitely quit.

@dr-ant TBH I wasn't thinking like that at the beginning. I was quite open and hopeful. Trying to understand, be patient, explain stuff etc. For some reason however they simply don't learn, or do that really slowly. Asking the same kinds of questions over and over again, where an average junior dev would only ask 3 times maybe. Making the same mistakes. Following some thought patterns leading to a mess in the code, or completely misunderstanding their tasks, but not asking what should they really do. Not being able to grasp the big picture, even after the hours of refinement, drawing diagrams, having each of those elements explained. And they don't raise any issues when I explain stuff and ask them 3 times: "Is everything clear?". "Yes yes, everything's clear". And then time over time they prove that nothing is actually clear. If I made them a detailed bullet list, they'd be able to follow, maybe. But I don't expect any independent thinking anymore. Not after all those months...