SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana
33mo

What’s the one thing that makes you uninterested in resuming your work on Mondays?

Meetings
Lack of creativity at work, making it boring & mundane
Documentation
Your Manager
Duty bound, delivery timeline
Some other reason (Comment)
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33mo ago
DizzyMarshmallow
DizzyMarshmallow

I don't have an exact answer to this. For the past 2 years, I'm in a burnout stage - I have lost the fire/will to work on anything professionally. This is especially the case post COVID. So it is a combination of

  1. I realise that there is more to life than work and career.
  2. Feeling tired with deadlines and the daily hustle.

What is the purpose of this life? Why is it that we spend 60-70% of our awake time running just to pay bills or eat good food or get some travel checklist done?

SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

Great perspectives. Appreciate it. 👏

DizzyLlama
DizzyLlama
33mo

Totally agreed! So, what do you wanna do? I am at a similar stage myself, but when I think about leaving all behind, not sure what to pick up next! For doing anything from your bucket list, you need money! That's a default basic thing!

WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

None of these It’s just inability to continue watching Netflix/YT/IG Reels for hours at a stretch 😂

PeppyMuffin
PeppyMuffin

I just feel I have grown lazy overtime.  I am addicted to all the distractions we have in the post Covid era like reels, huge OTT content, etc.  But I realize once I start working, it continues to give me excitement and thrill and I can work for longer hours and stretch so it is just the beginning on Monday. That is painful..

ZippyDumpling
ZippyDumpling

This is such an interesting point. Have you tried actively turning down digital activity?
Any luck with it?

PeppyMuffin
PeppyMuffin

Yes. So I am not turning down digital activity. I am transitioning. So I have Kindle App installed on my phone and everytime I go on Insta, my inner self reminds me that I could be reading instead -> gives me lesser dopamine and easier to put down the phone once I finish a paragraph/idea.

MagicalHamster
MagicalHamster

Other - 2 din ki chutti ke baad aadat bigad jati hai.

Gets worse on long weekends.

FluffyKoala
FluffyKoala

This right here.

SillySushi
SillySushi

hangover

CosmicRaccoon
CosmicRaccoon

Was looking for this . LOL

JumpyTaco
JumpyTaco

Can we update the tracker , jira , google sheet, standup docs, confluence , slack, lauda lahsan… bc update karne m hi 1 ghanta ghus jata h

GroovyBurrito
GroovyBurrito

I'm too exhausted, I don't feel like working anymore for the past 1.5 years I have given 12-14 hours a day for my work. Client is very demanding, needs every type of documentation, need to investigate issues which were caused once and then never occurred again. If any issue due to old data , why there was an issue an explanation is needed. Everything has KPIs. Expectation is that the developer should know every scenario. Why something was built that way 2 years ago has to be explained many times as well.

Feeling burnt out. Want to leave, but current job market is scary. Though I know I can get a job anywhere with my skillset, but still it is a risk.

BubblyMochi
BubblyMochi

Are you in tech ?

GigglyWalrus
GigglyWalrus
  1. Constant "quick call?" pings by team members who aren't able to figure out simple things.
  2. Timesheets. Explaining how I utilized every hour of work last week and this itself takes a good 30 min on Monday.
  3. Some weird glitch in the system which I know will take up half of this week.
PerkyLlama
PerkyLlama

I'm a normal person and this is a regular Monday, so ...

QuirkyRaccoon
QuirkyRaccoon

Well , I’m just lazy or exhausted and want some more break

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