When going back doesn't mean going backwards
A story of doing a career U-turn and rekindling my love for web development.
A story of doing a career U-turn and rekindling my love for web development.
It turns out that burnout doesn't 'just happen to other people'. I've been running on fumes for months, and it culminated in me crying in a coffee shop in front of my extremely kind and patient manager.
I started writing this post a few days ago, and was so exhausted I couldn't actually be bothered to finish it, which tells you a lot really. Here are some lessons from the trash fire of 2020 that we can take over into the slightly-smaller-but-still-burning trash fire of 2021.