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I can no longer find the original source for this quote. All search results are my mentions 🤨 I think it was a photo of a slide at a talk. Anyhow, still one of the smartest lines ever: “burnout is due to being under purposed rather than overworked”
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I think it was @dhh who said something like burnout is due to being underpurposed rather than overworked. Tracks for me. Similar thing here. It’s not a filter failure problem. It is desire imprecision problem.
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Under purposed as a burnout cause is probably much more common among freelancers than among trad employees, and freelancers probably do not make up the majority of either workers or those burning out.
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Not based on my anecdata. Quite the reverse. All the quiet quitting, great resignation etc is employee underpurpose burnout ime. Freelancers are financially stressed but mostly not purpose-challenged.
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Aside from two friends/fam in nursing and two in teaching, what I got is too much time on reddit and TikTok. My impression from both is burnout/quitting mostly workloads from attritioned positions being saddled on the remaining clueless until they can’t take it anymore.
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