what do you do when you get burned out?

[Jimbo1]

Or you can do like I did about a year ago and go to broadcast school.

[fixthecopier]

SO, how did that work out for you?

[Elle]

hrm burnout.......nasty business all the way around. i've only been at this for a lil over a year but i screamed burnout a couple of months ago - i got my ass kicked a couple o times with some difficult problems - got around those then i realized that i do what i do for the company and the rest of the techs (still a shortage of qualified applicants here). the customer comes second to the rest of the shop but those peeps are my friends. do i do this for the customer? - not really - do i do it for the company? - not really - i do it for the people in the company. i couldn't just let those guys go out all overworked all the time. i guess what i'm gettin at is that you should evaluate your reasons for working there, if the reasons don't match with who you are then maybe you do need a different line of work. just remember the smiles on the customer's face when things are working in the end, maybe that'll help some.

[Jimbo1]

Currently doing a temp thing after hours.

Can be heard m-w-f from 6 to 8 central at

DRS 2006® Radio Streamer - Shoutcast and Windows Media Stream Hosting - Internet Radio Host

That will get a page called Shoutcast then click listen.

I am JC in the nighttime.

From the island of misfit toys in the wayback machine.

[cobiray]

While there is not cure-all for being burned out at anything, my recommendation is one of two things. Take a vacation. Not a long weekend or a few days either, but take the whole week. Don't think about work, don't think about customers, don't think about bosses, don't think about underlings.

My other recommendation is to start a hobbie. Collect stamps, build models, rebuild an old car, plant a garden or something you can focus on to get away from work-on-the-brain. Do something that you enjoy and can get away from the daily grind of work. I started rebuilding a VW Beetle and it's great therapy to get away to the garage after a stressful day at work.

[Cipher]

I find swearing in short loud bursts and chain smoking generally helps.

[dogsbody]

I find swearing in short loud bursts and chain smoking generally helps.

don't forget beer

[gambit]

step 1 : Go to pub
step 2 : Cry in beer (repeat as necessary)
step 3 : Cry in whiskey (repeat as necessary)

Ha, I didn't realise binge drinking was so widespread from uk shore lines

[FRIDGEMAGNET]

Its your round by the way!

[DadO]

Buy us an beer and we will make u happy ( i have feeling that this sounded like a hooker talk )