Software Engineer Burnout (and 8 tips to avoid it)

What's burned you out in the past? What do you do to avoid burnout?

What do you think of taking prescribed medicine. I am on medication but doing things you mentioned as well

Not the Dr Disrepect shoutout 😂😭💀

every video is a learning experience, thanks for the great content!

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While some survival tips are appreciated, I think it's important to put the focus where it should be: burnout comes from the outside, not from the inside.
You can meditate, change your mindset, exercise and all of those will help, but ultimately, burnout is caused by your work environment, not by how you perceive it.

And while you can definitely do something to improve the way you look at it, ultimately you can't fix your environment by trying to fix yourself. No amount of meditation will fix unrealistic deadlines, poor processes, bad bosses and excessive expectations.

The way out of burnout is to fix what is causing it. If your job is causing you too much stress, re-discuss your working conditions or switch jobs.

Think

I listen to my favourite music playlist when I code, then spend time tendering the garden. I go out to refresh my mind while absorbing sunlight. I sleep or watch one episode of a series

Most of the advice is the common sense, what you really need is friends at work. Once you have friends at work, your work ethic and engagement rises and motivation for work comes. The thing is it's harder to develop friendships with everything being remote these days.

how do I do all this if i work from 8-6 with transit then have 2-3h to unwind at home and eat/sleep

In college for business right now. Idk what career I want but I know I want something that’s low stress, high pay

Good video, That is the exact loop I am in right now, I am very disciplined person and relatively high mental capacity in general but I am breaking. It is been a long time coding, learning different concepts even language"I mean language not programming language" , wake up early do workout go to work, come home eat, rest a bit, work, learn, sleep"If I can 3-4 max 5 hours" and repeat. Thanks for video.

Man i feel like i am burning out. Got 8 years of experience in my framework and recently hired for a company that is right now creating a new project using this framework. I already moved mountains using the framework, my co workers can barely understand the basics of MVC. Dont get me wrong, i dont think i am smarter than everyone else. It is that i am implementing my stuff clean, maintainable, testable and the framework way just for a coworker to come around like "I dont understand the ORM, instead of learning it i am now ripping out all Models and ORM and replace it with raw Queries what takes like 3 weeks". This kind of BS. I am done i dont want anymore why the hell did i learn all of this when in professional programming everyone is just shitting all over the place fuck i wasted my life and my teens learning this useless shit

Try reading a book in bed, best sleeping pill for me, even a good one, and a nice side-effect you'll get awesome dreams about whatever you're reading.

Thanks for your openness.

I am so burned out!

Watch Billions. It's amazing.

1. Never start this job or leave it immediately, unless you are an autist.

Uncaring managers that over deliver on your behalf while saddling you up with work you already said you can't finish...oh and the timeline is 4 weeks sooner.

Unreasonable, directionless, inconsistent management is why I'm burnt out.

Another good tip is don't overdo it on the caffiene because you will build up a tolerance and it doesn't feel very good and sometimes you need to take a break.. Take a break from it for a couple of days or a few days if you can. Drink more water. Water keeps your energy feeling fresher and clearer. Be prepared for more naps though.

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Also, live in gratitude, be thankful for everything you have now. Never forget to take time out and count your blessings

Thanks ❤

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It is really hard to keep up with the tech enhancements. I sometimes think that I have no life :( I have no wife, no kids, no house. I work, read, learn and that's it.
Even if I am getting the money, I can't properly spend it. Who needs a profession that takes your life? I've had a talk with a bank employee about having a sad job and she told me that her job sucks and not mine. I guess everyone had his/her problems. That's life I guess.

I have been feeling some weird anxiety and burning out a little bit after starting out a Jr dev Drupal PHP job.

thanks for your videos , I started newly bootcamp ,before i tried it myself but it did not work with my regular job and family , i resigned and focused on only coding but now i m struggling how am i going to study,way of studies ....thanks for sharing

Praying 5 times a day as a Muslim and doing rememberence of God which gives pause and serenety and taking care of my body because I'm intrused with it ( even tho I'm sorta a little bad in this part) and giving the self it's right of enjoyment and peace, plus the blessing of God to help my imperfections, seems like Islam just keeps u away from burnout automatically, I was just worried this might happen to me oneday but seems like being Muslim God already protects me from it

One reason is yes man type managers agree to deliver demo even before testing
Watching this while fixing bugs , we dont have time to spend all thise money that's the reality

Waste of time

excellent video, thamk you so much !

Basically dont work and u avoid burnout.

Thanks, man. Do you have any advice for student burnout for programming? I’m learning Python as a beginner for my data analytics degree, and taking 2 additional courses this semester as well. And my instructor all she does is shove resources down our throat, with an assignment at the end of the week. I think on average she probably provides 15 hours of lecture reading + programming. We just finished our midterm and I feel burned out. I graduate at the end of the fall ( so I am motivated by that), however, right now I feel really stressed, burnt out, and depressed. Is this normal to feel? And if so do you have any tips for dealing with this as a student? Thanks in advance.

Side note- I’m averaging about 3 hours a day studying + full time job

Tight deadlines. Agile. Aggressive managers. Legacy code. High business complexity with partial or no knowledge transfer. Choosing a banking project is perfect to burn out.

This is a very important tip especially for new/young software engineers! Dont exchange your long term mental health with out of life work balanced overtimes hours which will be almost forgotten as nobody will respect overtime results ...

There is no avoiding it . Only coping

Those points are correct and thanks for share

Thanks so much...

IT jobs burnout are mostly because of on-call support duties.

Very cool video thanks to you from France !

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Hi,
I'm 19, I graduated this year (in Germany) and now I'm planning to get a degree in computer science. Since I'm yet unable to write code I wanted to ask whether it's a good idea to study computer science without any pre-knowledge of coding. If not, which language could some of you recommend to learn in advance of my studies?
Thanks for the help :)

Don't drink coffee, it makes anxiety worse. The withdrawal is terrible but it's worth it in the end, you get a clearer head.

Good advice ...can you please start a class ,you're smart and alot people needs you especially for undergraduate like me

can you make a tutorial about live wallpaper app where if you click a button it applies the live wallpaper on your screen, not like making the whole APK as a live wallpaper just making a button and if you click it it sets the GIF live wallpaper for you

Need suggestions people! Should I start my journey by learning Python or JavaScript? Would appreciate it y'all can help?

Need suggestions people! Should I start my journey by learning Python or JavaScript? Would appreciate it y'all can help?

Me getting excited for all these things to relax
My job: Really.........do you think you'll get this much of time 😂😂😭😭😭

Meditation is like praying for non religious people.