So I just read this article about a phenomenon called boreout. Instead of working so hard that you burn out, you work so little that you're bored out. They listed ten things, and if you answered yes to four or more, you could be suffering from boreout. I answered yes to nine out of ten, something that I think pretty much speaks for itself. It is exhausting having nothing to do, pretending to be busy as you don't want your boss to know that you're actually spending most of your time on facebook. And people who suffer from boreout are not lazy, laziness is not the reason why we don't work. Lack of work is the reason. People who are lazy, who don't want to work, obviously don't suffer from boreout as they are perfectly happy with not having anything to do.
So I think that we can establish that I'm well on the way of boring out at work. But incidentally, I think that I'm also on the way of burning out. Even if I don't work very hard at work, I have so many other things going on outside of work, as I've already mentioned. This weekend I didn't do anything of importance, I just relaxed, apart from the gym class and some cleaning. No school work, no political activity, just Sex and the City. And a lot of the time, I felt so guilty for not being productive, for not using my free time to study. But I couldn't have studied, I was so exhausted from doing that every single night of last week.
If you start feeling guilty for relaxing on a Sunday, should you worry about burning out too? And what happens if you're both bored out and burned out? They say the effects of the two are more or less the same. Will I completely crash and burn? Or does one somehow take out the other? Is it sort of like maths, two minuses equals a plus?
I guess only time will tell.
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Sounds like an interesting article. Do you have the link? :)
ReplyDeleteI do, I do!
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