[EmilyHughes]

If you don't get paid to do something it's not fun, how about you just stop doing it?

[palata]

Just like ending a relationship. Sometimes it takes time to realise that it is not fun anymore.

[jynelson]

it's not that simple. people form an emotional attachment to the work; they feel obligated to keep doing it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39027226

[EmilyHughes]

That might be, but then don't wonder if people look at you strange if you tell them you got burnout from a job where you never met any colleagues and didn't get paid either.