Ann Helen Peterson: Burnout takes so many different forms, and I think that it's one of those things that it's difficult to compete at. The burnout that someone who is working a hodgepodge of three jobs, none of which have reliable scheduling, you're always trying to find childcare. Like, that is a precarity burnout in a lot of different ways.
What does "burnout" even mean anymore? If you're asking yourself this question, you've come to the right podcast. Anne Helen Petersen is the writer who helped popularize the term and she thinks people are missing the big picture. In this episode, Anne Helen and Chris discuss the structures that are leading so many people, from nurses to teachers to office workers, to suffer from chronic, work-related stress. Then, Anne Helen suggests some of the ways that we can rethink our relationship to work – and offers practices that could protect us from laboring past our limits. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts