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I strongly agree with this:

"In contrast, I have felt very burned out in relatively nice jobs - thoroughly pleasant environments with minor workloads."

For me, I feel the most intense burnout when I see stupidly wasted opportunities. For instance, if a startup has a great idea and plenty of funding, but the leadership is hopelessly stupid and engages in self-sabotage (and perhaps I try to save the situation but I'm ignored) and millions of dollars are wasted, then I get burnout. I felt burnout in 2016, after witnessing the insanely self-destructive leadership at "Celelot" destroy a brilliant idea, which I wrote about here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998997617?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_...




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