[Aaargh20318]

> Is anyone else experiencing burnout as a result of numbingly boring tasks rather than from intense bursts of mentally challenging work?

For me it’s boring, meaningless and ill-defined tasks. Especially if you have many of those assigned without clear priorities.

I actually like a good crisis at work. E.g. a major production system suddenly going down. Suddenly, there is focus, interrupts go away, the desired result is completely clear and you feel like doing something that matters.

On the other end of the spectrum, working on some meaningless feature (e.g. adding some performance metrics to the system management decided could possibly be useful as if they actually bothered to look at them) has me completely exhausted at the end of the day.

[fhy45678]

>>>a major production system suddenly going down. Suddenly, there is focus, interrupts go away

Do you want to do that everyday for next 20 years?