[JohnFen]

I learned something new today! I'd never heard of "boreout" before. I had been thinking that I was suffering from long-term burnout, but perhaps it's this instead.

I don't have an answer for you, though. What I think I'm likely to do is take a year or so off work entirely.

[boredaway]

I've experienced burnout before (when working about 16 hrs a day, 7 days a week, being an engineer for Big Tech at the same time as trying to build my own startup... bad idea in restrospective) and this is something different albeit very easy to confuse with it.

The stress is there, the self-esteem issues are there, as well as the feeling that there's just no way out of it, so it took me a while to figure out it was boreout and not burnout.

If you are able to take a year off, definitely seems like a great idea.

I have fantasized about that for a while but unfortunately even though I've been saving for a long time, it's nowhere near enough for a full year, since I have dependants. I am able to take off about 3 months and am seriously considering it.