Ask HN: I burned out but I don’t want to let my team down
by burnedoutanon on Hacker News.
I never thought I’d write these words but, yeah, it happened to me too: I burned out. I can’t even stand checking my emails anymore but I manage a team of 5 amazing devs (for a relatively large corp) who clearly started to notice something’s wrong. The job, the people, the tasks, the work-life balance are all great so the issue lies somewhere else. I eat healthy, exercise every day and have a good social life. I also see a therapist regularly (I started years ago and find it incredibly helpful to gain perspective on various areas of life). But most days I’d rather spend 3 hours in bed watching Netflix than write a single line of code. I worked on a couple of side projects, and that helped, but I lost motivation to continue that as well. I’m researching the topic and this community helped me a lot throughout the last few years so I thought I’d post this. How can I manage responsibilities and deal with this at the same time? Should I delegate my work to someone else for a while? Should I just take a couple of weeks’ vacation? I’m kind of lost at the moment.