This Is The Last >40 Hour Week I Will Ever Work

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I've been increasingly burnt out for months and it's just costing me whatever limited executive function and emotional regulation I have. I basically accomplish nothing but going to work and coming home, I simply don't have the energy to take care of making food or staying on top of required paperwork (taxes, bills, etc).

All I do is go to work and come home, this life isn't worth living especially when putting myself through this only makes it more likely I'll get fired for having a meltdown. I can't do it anymore and I won't do it anymore.

And with that said, I'm off to my terrible job because they've already had call-ins today.

Oh dear, that's a difficult spot to be in.
Hope you can get a break or make a break before your body and being break down.

I can relate,

as i reached my burnt out point 5 1/2years ago.

I then questioned 'there's got to be more to life that this' re:just working and existing'.

So i turned my back on the system and took a year off,to find more meaning to life 'Spiritually'.

I then went back to work for 2years.

Kept myself afloat,downsized material possessions and waited not only till it was financially viable to exit,

but when i reached the point of no return and felt 101% it was time.

I then exited to a small country town 2years ago.


You have to reach that initial burn out point,make a decision and set the wheels in motion.

I commiserate where your at,at this point in time.
It's a miserable existence being chained to work,the system and just existing.

I wish you the best of luck,with whatever you decide and sincere best wishes.

Take care and importantly,look after number one,yourself.

I know how you feel. I've never worked that many hours before but I don't think I would want to. Getting up early in the morning tires me for a start - especially in the winter months when it's dark and cold - because some nights I don't sleep well while other nights I sleep relatively well but still not ready to be woken up by an alarm so early in the morning.
Also there are so many rules at work, and I used to long to just be at home working on a project or pursuing my hobbies and being able to eat, drink and nap whenever I want. They used to guilt me into coming in on my days off though, which I didn't like. I looked forward to my days off.
I got emotionally exhausted more so than physically exhausted, but a lot of people don't understand what emotional exhaustion means. They just think you're being lazy or unhelpful.


So now I work evenings, part-time. I don't like the dark much but I can function better when not forced to leave my haven (my bed) on cold, foggy mornings. And I may not have as much money to myself but I can just about get by. OK I can't afford a bigger place or to collect expensive vintage items as a hobby, but you can't have your cake and eat it, I suppose.

I can strongly relate. This is the longest I've ever worked a full-time job (1.3 years). I burned out fast, even on part-time jobs, when I had to work around customers. I would unconsciously sabotage myself and would have to quit before I got fired. I do a lot better now that I'm working on my own most of the time, but I'm having increasing frustrations and worry burnout isn't far off.

Will you be changing to part-time hours soon?

I might be in the same boat through no choice of my own, but working 40 as an intern for basically two years straight has not been easy. Now my whole life consists of pressure to rack up professional certifications & go to school, unless I get some very good news tomorrow morning.

It happened to me that due to burnouts, each time I thought I had recovered after a year or twos break from working, I found I could do less and less before hitting another burnout, so I found I was working part time, until the hours were such that it was hardly worth me working at all... And the last burnout was the worst one I have hit and I have not worked since then. The last burnout was during late summer of 2019.

I’m burnt out and taking vacations and days off isn’t refreshing me like it used to.

That's because days off just fly by, even if you take a whole week off. It's over before your brain has even begun to relax.

Thank you for the replies. I've never made a thread over here and wasn't sure how much sympathy anyone would have.

I hope to. I'm going to need to meet with my doctor, but I'm anxious because my old doctor retired 2 years ago and I've never met the new one yet.




That's basically where I'm at. Even on good days I feel like I'm barely functional, I struggle to remember what I was doing 30 seconds ago if my attention is drawn away. When I have to keep track of parts that run out simultaneously on both sides of the line I keep missing the one side because I notice something else that's about to run out and rush to deal with that. The person training me in Plant 2 is probably beside himself watching me run around like a chicken with it's head cut off while I still end up missing s**t all over the place. Knowing I'm a source of distress for others only adds to the s**t I need to deal with but can't.

Hopefully I'll stay assigned to Plant 1, since at least I can do most of the jobs over there on auto-pilot. Even better would be dropping to 4 days a week, since even 36 hours would be better than 44 (paid hours, but add 90 minutes per day off the clock for getting ready and commuting).




OMG yes. I'd call in sick or ask to leave and basically all it did was stop the fuse on the imminent meltdown. I'm so burnt out emotionally that I'm literally always on the verge of falling on the floor and screaming like a toddler (or worse). And sadly as a man who's 6' tall and >200lbs even completely inward directed tantrums/meltdowns/whatever you'd like to call it can be very intimidating for others to witness.

Good for you! Glad to hear you’re making changes in your life. Gotta look after yourself.

All of my symptoms are internal so people generally don't know how I am struggling and then are really surprised when I snap. I rarely snap. But today, for example, I can hardly keep working. I eat too much crap and I have lots of healthy stuff around. I feel guilty for not getting more done around the house, but I can't even get caught up at work.

I've delegated a lot, but still there is too much to do for clients.

I really don't want to have a melt down in my position as owner of the agency. Part of having a successful agency is being in charge and taking care of the emergencies.

But I don't even want to Talk to anyone. Email. Texts. I don't want anything. I don't even know what I want. I just want this horrible anxiety to leave my body.

I did snap a bit at my office assistant, not at her, but I was clearly grouchy and I apologized. she is the sweetest little person and always happy and so polite.

So, yeah, I know how you feel and I am so sorry. It looks like from another post you got put back into the line you want. I hope things get sorted with your work so you aren't so stressed.

This might explain why people are now feeling out of sorts and or being triggered.

The sun is awakening with ‘solar storms’ that could affect Earth

Prioritize and align with what truly matters in life,

instead of putting things off,living robotic,enslaved and doing things you don't want to do.

Self love and focus on number one.