Ask HN: Are You Burned / Burning Out?
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step 1: save up money and pay off debt
step 2: sell all your possessions except laptop, clothes and a few other things
step 3: find remote job
step 4: move to SE Asia, join an expat community, enjoy a low cost of living lifestyle
Failed at step 1, stuck in a remote and non-technical community with limited to no job prospects. Can't compete with the remote job market.
Its like I crash landed on a remote planet and my space ship is irrevocably broken. I feel like the only solution is to accept I will never make the money I used to, the life I knew is over and I'm just never going to get it back.
It's heartbraking. It keeps me in bed never wanting to leave, it has furthered my intense depression and anxiety. You cannot escape PTSD like this.
Its like I crash landed on a remote planet and my space ship is irrevocably broken. I feel like the only solution is to accept I will never make the money I used to, the life I knew is over and I'm just never going to get it back.
It's heartbraking. It keeps me in bed never wanting to leave, it has furthered my intense depression and anxiety. You cannot escape PTSD like this.
Your words have a lot of power. You become what you repeatedly say about yourself. If you just changed this one thing, not thinking negatively about yourself or the future, it would change your entire life. You have a lot more power than you think you do. Focus on the things you can change right now. Look around your room. I'm sure you can find at least one thing that needs fixing. Be blessed internet friend.
I am currently neck deep in the job hunt, working a job I hate and unable to move the needle. Instead of screaming into the void I want to engage with others here who are having a difficult time, not finding the success they want or otherwise not able to walk the path they need to be on.
What are your challenges? What are your insurmountable obstacles that you cannot see a clear resolution to? Whether job, personal or somewhere in between show me your flames, ashes and smoke.
I want to know what you are all collectively fighting. I don't care if you are winning.
I care that you care, and that you feel hurt and / or pain because you are giving it EVERYTHING you have and you can't make any progress.
I think recognizing you are not able to make progress is the first step to achieving unreachable goals, even if you don't know what the next step beyond that is.
Burnout is awful, burnout is real. Burnout is a thing other people do to you, but it is also a thing we do to ourselves. Society does not respect people suffering from this, it is an invisible wheelchair we must all find our own ways to accommodate.