Quickest way to burn out? Being in a job you deeply care about but had no autonomy to bring about change.
An absolutely frightening number of people have engaged with this tweet by responding with agreement or acknowledgement and it's terrifying. How is shit soooo broken, y'all.
I have lots of thoughts on this topic and really want to gather them in a blog post sometime soon. People often associate burnout with overwork and it's such a narrow lens to examine a much deeper and complex issue.
I'm gonna thread some of my past tweets on this topic here which will hopefully help me come up with an outline 😅 https://twitter.com/ScribblingOn/status/981137501568905216
https://twitter.com/ScribblingOn/status/1026523428013002752
https://twitter.com/littleidea/status/1026579576258875392
https://twitter.com/ScribblingOn/status/1026521215865774083
Holy shit. This blew up. I'm really glad so many people resonated with it.
I'm gonna mute it now bc it's flooding my mentions and making them completely unusable. 😬
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