[Mezzie]

It depends on what work you're doing. I'm burnt out right now and working retail, which is fine to push through. Am I particularly fulfilled? No, but like you, I was raised by people with the philosophy of: "A group for people who hate their jobs? Yeah, it's called the bar. We meet on Friday nights." But retail is a job I can do with next to no mental involvement. Autopilot will work. Sales is similar provided the product changes in manageable ways.

For work where your value is your thoughts and ideas, this is less possible. The job I left was in communications. I couldn't come up with good, pithy marketing or slogans when I had no free mental energy, and when it reached the point that I realized the org and I had major ideological differences, it was even more difficult because trying to force my brain to help expand the reach of an organization I thought was bad just wouldn't work. Some positions require a certain amount of buy-in to do.