I really like the message of this post. It's basically a message of goodwill to all and saying "Look after yourself."
To add from my experience, I would say that conditions like burnout are part of the process of growing older and wiser to discover what your values really are.
As a youngster we're often taught about the concepts of 'professionalism'. We're spoon-fed stories of 'success' where CEOs wake up at 4am every day to work all through their lives. What's not often told are the stories of grief, as the 55 year old watches their children leave home having hardly shared a moment of their childhood. The stories of disillusion as people rise the ranks of their corporate setting to discover the pointlessness of it all. Stories of people plodding through their existence to pay the mortgage watching time pass by as their dreams fade away. The sacrifices that people make in the name of 'success'.
It takes a person a long time to know who they are and what they want. One person's idea of success is not the same as another's. I think burnout is sometimes just a step along the road of discovering what's really important in life, and what 'successful' really means for you.
This definitely resonates. The number of divorces, affairs, and broken families I saw on the agency side was significant. One guy I worked with basically just had his parents looking after his kids while he worked all the time. He put up a brave face at the office, but I'm certain it was turmoil on the home front.
There is always another client who may want a rush, but truly only one family to take care of. Individual devs knowing what success means to them is certainly more powerful than any image fed to us.
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I really like the message of this post. It's basically a message of goodwill to all and saying "Look after yourself."
To add from my experience, I would say that conditions like burnout are part of the process of growing older and wiser to discover what your values really are.
As a youngster we're often taught about the concepts of 'professionalism'. We're spoon-fed stories of 'success' where CEOs wake up at 4am every day to work all through their lives. What's not often told are the stories of grief, as the 55 year old watches their children leave home having hardly shared a moment of their childhood. The stories of disillusion as people rise the ranks of their corporate setting to discover the pointlessness of it all. Stories of people plodding through their existence to pay the mortgage watching time pass by as their dreams fade away. The sacrifices that people make in the name of 'success'.
It takes a person a long time to know who they are and what they want. One person's idea of success is not the same as another's. I think burnout is sometimes just a step along the road of discovering what's really important in life, and what 'successful' really means for you.
This definitely resonates. The number of divorces, affairs, and broken families I saw on the agency side was significant. One guy I worked with basically just had his parents looking after his kids while he worked all the time. He put up a brave face at the office, but I'm certain it was turmoil on the home front.
There is always another client who may want a rush, but truly only one family to take care of. Individual devs knowing what success means to them is certainly more powerful than any image fed to us.