Author jonathan mellessi argues that the phenomena of burnout isn't all that new. Some kind of exhaustion that is more than physical tiredness has been part of the human condition for a very long time, he says. A great parallel with burnout is neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion, which was first identified a hundred years prior to maslak and freudenberger identifying burnout.
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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