Burnout denial: You're Not the Only One

I’m sitting there at the kitchen table and my lower back is literally screaming—ten hours on the job site today just hauling rebar and the humidity was just...

disappearing? …

i think maybe humans just arent built to do this much all at once but we pretend we are because the alternative is just too scary to look at...

You spend your whole life being the one who catches the world before it hits the floor.

Anyone else out there look back at thirty years of "taking one for the team" and want to set the whole building on fire? …

I’m 59, almost 60, and I’m out here driving for the delivery apps until the early hours because the rent went up again and there's no such thing as a "day off" when you're freelance. …

you know that feeling when you have exactly thirty minutes to be a human being before you have to go back to being a public utility and instead of like actually resting you just decide to ruin your… …

i am 69 years old and i am sitting in my car after a six hour shift at the mall and i am just... …

its a partnership contract. …

i am sitting here at 2:38am staring at a blank google doc and the cursor is just mocking me blinking like a heartbeat and i feel like my brain has been replaced by wet sand i have to write ONE social… …

I been doing this carpentry shit since I was like a kid basically because my dad needed the help and now I’m seventeen but my hands feel like they belong to a ghost or something (that sounds stupid… …

i havent slept in like forty hours maybe more and my hands are shaking so bad i keep dropping my phone on my face while i lay here in the dark but i cant shut my brain off... …

You ever look at the clock and it’s 2:14 AM and you’re still staring at a screen for a client who wouldn’t know your name if it was tattooed on their forehead—that’s the life. …

I thought I could bring some of that military discipline to the classroom and actually help these kids. …

Henderson and that was considered professional but now I’m hiding five-milligram oxycodone tablets like I’m some kind of criminal in a beige cardigan just to get through the afternoon filing without… …

She looked at me and said she’s just "high-energy" today. …

I’m sitting in the clinic breakroom at 2am and the floor is actually, physically sticky. …

I’m 76 years old and I’m still chasing invoices at 2 in the fucking morning... …

I’m looking at medical invoices and font kerning. …

i just walked out of the office at five sharp while mark and sarah were still hunched over the main site model and i feel like a fucking criminal... …