Beating Burnout Blog Series
Maybe you're seeing it with your own teams or even in yourself. Here are some signs to look for:
- Your employees have so much apathy that they sound like the goth kids from South Park ("Whatever.")
- Eye rolling is such an often occurrence in your office that you're surprised when it DOESN'T happen
- Jobs are getting done, but instead of being completed throughly and with a lot of thought, the end product looks like it's held together with paper clips and chewing gum
- You wait to have your coffee until AFTER your morning staff meeting, because there's no point in getting a buzz on until you get the Debbie Downers out of your office and on their way for the day
- When you wake up in the morning, you're actually praying that someone on your team will call in sick, because, despite the increased work load for the day, it's less emotionally draining than actually having them there.
A job is like a relationship. You're going to fall in and out of love with it over time. What's important is that you really like the core of what you're doing, because that's what will get you through the rough stages. Just like new car smell, new job passion will fade over time. You'll slow down, become annoyed with the day to day stuff and apathy will creep in. But if you can just remember, every once and a while, to touch that part of your job that made you love it in the first place, you gain a bit of the motivation that it takes to keep you from burning out and divorcing your career partner. That memory touch of the initial career infatuation, that is the goal of this series.
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