Recognizing and Dealing With Tech Burnout
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Recognizing and Dealing With Tech Burnout

If you work in the tech field, you have probably experienced burnout. Hopefully, this debilitating condition didn’t happen to you. Perhaps you witnessed a colleague “crash and burn” due to high levels of stress that were never relieved. Unfortunately, this type of on-the-job burnout, in the tech industry or any other, can lead to more than just career failure.

Mental health professionals recognize burnout as a serious physical and mental problem. When left untreated, the chronic stress which leads to burnout can even cause someone to have thoughts of suicide. The constant release of cortisol and other stress-related hormones cause dangerous imbalances in your mind and body, which could lead to an inability to function normally.

This is why it is so important to identify the symptoms of tech burnout so you can deal with them before you become a victim of this very real technology field calamity.

What is Tech Burnout?

In the technology industry, workers are all too familiar with burnout. Long hours, working days on end without any free time is often a common occurrence. Burnout is a condition of the effects of prolonged stress, which have serious mental and physical health consequences. To identify a possible case of technology burnout about to occur, look for the following symptoms:

  • Long hours of work at a hectic pace
  • Feeling unappreciated and taken advantage of at work
  • Poor sleep quality
  • Constant irritability, and not just with your coworkers
  • A frequent and uncharacteristic crash in productivity
  • A feeling that you hate your job
  • Enjoying no spare time activities, and thinking about work all the time
  • You feel like there are no “good days”, and every day stinks

How To Avoid, and Deal With, Tech Burnout

It is always better to prevent a health condition rather than treat it. When you experience constant, unrelenting stress, your body and mind will eventually break if you don’t take a break. So schedule frequent breaks throughout the day to think about anything other than your career.

Look at the list of symptoms above.

When you start noticing more than one of those tech burnout symptoms in your life, stop what you’re doing. Think about your career and your personal lives. Prioritize what is important to you. Work is fine, and devotion to your job is admirable. On the other hand, if you experience burnout as a member of the tech field, you could ruin your career rather than bolster it.

Make sure you get plenty of rest. Keep properly hydrated, on the job and off. Eat a healthy, balanced diet. Don’t forget to exercise regularly.

All of those activities lead to a body and mind which can naturally handle stress and anxiety. As you already know, stress and anxiety are frequent companions in the technology field, so make sure you take the required steps to keep tech burnout from negatively impacting your life.

Recognizing and Dealing With Tech Burnout


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