Home/Work & Career/Burnout denial/ThoughtI am sitting in the back office of a department store at 11 PM, staring at the inventory manifest for next quarter. Logistics.burnout denialquiet quitting guiltShare this thoughtCopy linkShare on XDownload imageDoes this resonate with you?Share Your OwnBrowse MoreOthers have felt this tooYou know that feeling when you’ve been staring at rows in Excel so long they start to look like the bars of a cage? …career path regretI am sitting here at this desk in the back of the gallery and I want to throw these ledgers through the front window.workplace pretenseI’m sitting in the breakroom of the archives at 1:00 AM because I volunteered for the weekend inventory shift again. …social exhaustionI’m sitting here at 2:38 AM staring at 12 separate loan applications and a half-eaten bag of lukewarm takeout fries.financial hidingRelated ThemesAmbition shameCareer path regretImposter syndromeQuiet quitting guiltSuccess sabotage