What do you do when you’re really busy but feel burnt out? It actually scares me sometimes how much I feel like I’m going to drop the ball because I just can’t hang.
I’m way over capacity in a perpetually busy group and the expectation is to be over capacity because everyone else is. I get it, it’s not fair for one person to get a break while others don’t, but the partners get paid 5x as much as me and my cries for a break fall on deaf ears. It’s starting to really piss me off and I’ve become a flight risk. One reason we’re so busy is people aren’t staying. It’s a mess.
I have to show not tell by doing something to make them understand - like sending emails at 4am or not coming in for a week or accidentally cc’ing them on a recruiter email (I’m joking, but you get the point). And then when I have a mini freak out they say, why didn’t you just tell us you were busy. I’m like, stfu. And when I turn down work you’d think they just got struck by lightning. They are utterly shocked every time. Dude I hate how this profession is run. I have NO IDEA how people do this for years/decades on end while being happy. I feel like a shell. I wish I was a pop star smh.