The sixties and seventies was when more workers were becoming college educated and going into service professions. Another trend over history is the proliferation of so called bolshit jobs. Bolshet jobs are jobs that no one can really say what you're doing, including the worker themselves. So it's very easy to see how someone in a bollship job would feel a sense of ineffectiveness.
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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