| Friends and family tell me I’m insane for entertaining the possibility of taking some time off due to burnout. I’m currently dealing with some serious depression and trying work on these things myself, but it’s proving to be challenging and have set a timer to re evaluate before I dig myself into a deeper hole. Am I disillusioned to think time off would help me? Clearly the tech industry job market is tanking, so I see there is risk here. Would be nice to hear from people in a much clearer state of mind than myself. I’m 29, have about 1.1M USD with 150k cash emergency. Hoping to touch grass for a few months away from a screen and remember life is worth living. I’ve spent countless years second guessing myself hunched over, studying courses, doing graduate school, breaking production, fixing production. It’s fine, but my head is elsewhere and I can’t seem to care about anything anymore. Fitness wise I’m healthy, eat healthy, sleep well, workout a lot and socialize with friends. |
As a grey hair that burned out and flamed out with addiction I want to tell you to listen to yourself, but don't indulge yourself. Don't take action yet, figure yourself out a little more. When someone dies and you get depressed and feel like 'how can I go on without this person, the world feels empty now' people don't normally respond 'maybe if I blow up my life a little this will get better'. You figure out how to live without them. Maybe you need to figure out how to live WITH you a little before something drastic.
Have you lost passion? Or have you always delayed living/passion and you are ready for the delay to be over? Or is it you are now past the 'drastic life changes in 4 year blocks like elementary school, high school, college' and are now years deep into 'so this is my life' and don't have an upcoming new 4 year block where you shed old baggage and get another fresh start and you long for going back to that? Or???