Burnout: Signs You Should Quit Your Job Now!

"When you pull into work and say to yourself FUCK! the place hasn’t burned down yet."

Wanting your workplace to burn down is a classic sign you no longer want to be there.

"Out of nowhere pure hatred wells up for your colleague(s)."

Not only do you hate the place, you start hating everyone in it.

"Apathy"

"Apathy towards work and things that used to motivate you to drive your career forward. Eventually, you accept that work is your life and you just don't care. At that point, you're burnt out."

Simply not caring is a big sign of burnout.

"Every little thing irritates you in your daily life."

When you fly off the handle at very small things, you know you're on your way to burning out.

"When you begin to dread doing a task that you at one time took delight in doing."

Things just don't bring you joy anymore.

"For me it was the lack of a desire to get out of bed."

"I didn't want to go to that job and sleep sounded better. That led to irritability and then to write-ups. Ultimately left the job because of it."

Things just start snowballing and not for the better.

"You know when you are working and frustrated and someone comes over and tell you "are you all right?" and you just cry"

When you are held together by a single fragile thread.

"wanting to be alone all the time."

Wanting not to socialize at all and just tune out the whole world.

"Procrastination, and crutching on addictions, especially when done at the same time. ("Procrasturbating")"

Binge eating, watching mindless tv, or going towards sure fire pleasures so you can distract yourself from the morbidness of your burnout.

Lethargy

"A desire to do nothing every weekend because you don't have the energy. Never feeling rested. Irritability over lots of stupid, small things. Severe, mini-depressive episodes when you get to Sunday night. Not wanting to sleep because it gets you to the morning faster."

Constant exhaustion and a lack of motivation to do anything because you simply do not have the energy to do it.

Losing the will to fight back

"Here's one that gets mentioned less often:

When you start to feel burnt out you will also lose your will to fight back against the thing that's causing you stress/fatigue. You begin to wonder whether this is just normal for everyone and you doubt the validity of your own tiredness. 'Maybe I'm just over-reacting?' and as a result you may even slightly resent the people around you trying to help - like if your partner or friends tell you to take a break you may feel annoyed because 'it's not that simple' or that 'I have a responsibility to continue'"

This is a big one. Not only do you lose the will to work but also the will to fight back against the injustice of it all. The sense of powerlessness that comes with being burnt out is a very real feeling.

"This is the most dangerous thing I think, you will begin to normalize the burn-out which is how it will get to the stage where you actually cause harm to yourself physically or mentally."

Burnout is real and terrifying and it's scary just how many of us feel this way.

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