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15 Sep 2024, 12:45 am

Hello all! New to the forums.

I wanted to vent about my job. I work as a communications operator for a large hotel and the job is absolutely crushing me. It's constant noise, constantly expecting a million things to go wrong, people come in and distract me from my tasks, or the sudden messages and phone calls distract me from what I'm doing. It's genuinely the worst and I feel like I am just losing who I am bit by bit.

Normally I'm a fairly cheery person, I like making my friends and family smile and laugh, I usually have a positive outlook. But here recently, I wake up everyday exhausted and listless having to pull myself out of bed and I can barely do the things I normally enjoy like learning about history or computer science. I think here recently burnout has lead to a mini-depression but I know the overall problem is burnout. I want to get out of this job but I have been struggling to do my resume. The other day I spent three hours working on it and barely making progress. And I don't mean like having it open in one tab while watching youtube in another. I mean like I was looking at it and other resume examples and it was like I was a first year latin student trying to piece together Tacitus.

It's not all doom and gloom though! I did eventually get my resume to a point where I feel I can apply to places, now I just need to find some days where I'm not completely exhausted!



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15 Sep 2024, 4:31 am

Yes. That is burnout!

You need a job that is more "You".



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15 Sep 2024, 6:05 am

You sound like me. I wouldn't last 15 minutes in a job like that.

Good luck with the job hunting. Let us all know how it goes.



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15 Sep 2024, 12:11 pm

I would suggest working on your resume for a short time every day, for example 10 or 15 minutes. That way it won’t seem so overwhelming and will allow you to rest. Your brain will subconsciously carry on working on your resume in the background, so when you return to it the next day, you may find you have new ideas.



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15 Sep 2024, 12:58 pm

LittleBeach wrote:
I would suggest working on your resume for a short time every day, for example 10 or 15 minutes. That way it won’t seem so overwhelming and will allow you to rest. Your brain will subconsciously carry on working on your resume in the background, so when you return to it the next day, you may find you have new ideas.


That's a really good idea. I'm just very bad at doing stuff all or nothing. Either I'm doing it for hours or I'm not. I'm not sure how to get better at that.



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15 Sep 2024, 12:59 pm

JamesW wrote:
You sound like me. I wouldn't last 15 minutes in a job like that.

Good luck with the job hunting. Let us all know how it goes.


Thank you! I will(:



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15 Sep 2024, 12:59 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:
Yes. That is burnout!

You need a job that is more "You".


That's exactly what I'm thinking. I'm hoping to find work at a library. I think that would be a better pace.



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17 Sep 2024, 6:05 pm

Have you considered slinging?