[LeetHacks]

It hurts me that some people seem to consider this a luxury position. I completely wrecks me, to the point where I wished every day that a semi would drive me off the road and end it all. Switching jobs makes these thoughts go away instantly, but the boreout always returns.

Even in times where I have plenty work to do, it's all so meaningless or unchallenging. It's becomes easy faster then I get promoted. Most work is busywork, work on an advice that you know will be ignored in the end. Build a product nobody needs. If it's actually used my input feels minimal. Sure I made it, but 15 people had to review it in an "alignment meeting" at which point I am alienated from it. Imagine building a table and 15 people pointing out small things that could be done better. In the end it might be a better table, but damn would I hate it at that point.

It's heavy, every day feels like a drag. Appearing busy to avoid other bullshit tasks. Hoping IT doesn't look into your browsing behaviour. Rotate the same social media all day. And what maybe stings most, is that your performance reviews are very positive, further strengthening the point that it does not matter how you do it, as long as you are present.

[imtringued]

Honestly, my worst days in my life have been during boreout. I still remember 2019 being the worst year in my life because of this and 2020 wasn't as bad but the lockdown didn't let me recover. It's 2021 and everything is all right.

[text70]

Same here, but burnout. Most of the feedback I was getting were in the form of personal threats and "start looking for other jobs", from management.

I wonder if boreout and burnout are just products of the current imbalances of the current socioeconomic system, on a personal scale? What are we doing wrong economically, politically or socially that produces these extreme disparities in culture and society? Are there any remedies given the current constraints of legal, social, and familial obligations? Is finance so entrenched with physical and emotional well-being, that there can never be a happy medium?

It seems to me that some of the more advanced societies today have started to address some of the more existential questions of human existence through policy, to help assuage some of these fears. As before, policy helped to address some of the more physically threatening things like lions and tigers and bears, by building infrastructure. Advanced society policy addresses more existential questions, as in the above paragraph.

Which one do you live in, one that struggles with the basics, or the one that engages and addresses the existential questions of human existence? If you really want to get serious, what is the optimal velocity at which this occurs?