Burnout was first theorized in the 19 seventies. An old understanding of work was dying, and a new idea of work was being born. There's an increasing gap between what workers are producing for their employers and what they're getting in pay and benefits. If you just let them go, no one notices,. yel that the wall street journal isn't going to report on the ending of near a thousand workers contracts like it would with ten thousand people laid off from an auto plant in ohio.
If you dread getting out of bed in the morning; if you are bad tempered with co-workers, clients or customers; if you leave work feeling an exhaustion that goes way beyond tiredness... it could be that you're burned out.
Jonathan Malesic felt all these things as a successful academic, and reflected wistfully on his previous job working as a parking lot attendant. Could it be that taking a high status, high paying job was making him miserable and pushing him beyond the limits of his endurance? Jonathan shares what he learned about burnout while researching his bookThe End Of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us, And How To Build Better Lives.
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