[duped]

This is called burnout, you don't fix it by doing more work - including self study.

Take a long weekend every few weeks, go to yosemite. Or fly to vegas and cut loose. Pick up golf or pickleball or whatever. Make some friends who aren't engineers and live a bit.

Then you can come back to work with a fresh mind and care enough to get your shit done well.

[popularonion]

I started doing those random weekend trips to cope with my burnout and became of those SWEs living paycheck to paycheck making $250K.

It can also isolate you from normie friends/family who obviously can’t afford to travel like this.

If you’re 20-something and sick of it all and you’ve never been to Vegas, hell yeah you should go, I’m just saying don’t sleepwalk into bad habits.

[enos_feedler]

And when you do come back with the fresh mind, have a beginners mind. Work very hard to not fall into your old patterns. Approach things as new. Acting like a beginner but drawing on your old experience in a controlled way is very powerful

[randomopining]

Wow yeah. I have this in my bio but I haven't used it lately... great reminder thanks.

[shafyy]

It's not necessarily burn out. I mean, it's possible that the job's just boring. Some people can handle boring jobs better than others, mentally.

[alecbz]

That's still burnout, no?

I think some people view burnout as "being overworked to exhaustion" but I think that's just one form of it.