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Exploitation rule (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Burnout is a symptom of exploitation but not all burnout comes from exploitation. You can burn out from non-work activities like caregiving. You can burn out as a business owner or a member of a worker-owned co-op. You can burn out at a job that only expects healthy hours because you're an overachiever who refuses to take time off.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

I have found it's just as easy to burn out doing what I love as it was doing a job I hated.

Easier in some ways, because I don't want to stop!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hear, hear! You can burn out at anything, even your most beloved hobbies.

I was a video game modder for most of my life, but burnt out on the hobby completely after several years of maintaining a dozen or so mods for an early access game.

Making new features was great, and hunting down reported bugs in my own code was enjoyable. Constantly fixing compatibility issues due to updates (and having to rewrite perfectly valid code due to shifting or deprecated APIs) wasn't.

I love modding, but even things you enjoy get old after a while, and the feeling of obligation to continue (even if only not to disappoint your fans) wears at you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can burn out at a job that only expects healthy hours because you're an overachiever who refuses to take time off.

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