"I didn't sign up for this shit, right? Like, I want to work with kids or I want to help save lives," she says. "We wouldn't ask a nurse to walk around every day, saving people's lives without a blood pressure cuff ... That's not what this job was supposed to be."
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