Burnout - Where to Go, What to Do?
Real talk ya'll, I'm super tired of the whole grind life and I wanna cash in my prestige points from a blue chip development shop to rest & vest like a dirty tech bro. Where do I go?
I'm thinking about doing some braindead senior lender or corporate real estate for some F500 doing retail or office spaces that pays me 250-300k for the rest of my life and I work less than 40 hours a week. Hell, i'll even underwrite residential mortgages at some goofy local bank to do so.
Give me some recs while I get ruined by the death spiral of endless workouts and dying deals.
Signed,
A sad sack associate/DM at some developer somewhere
It's amazing how many people on this forum think brain dead jobs with less than a 40 hour work week pay $300K.
F500 300k for 40 hour weeks as some last ditch option is a hilarious presumption
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Right. Sounds like you’re flexible on type of jobs. Have you thought about Onlyfans?
Tried it and turns out no one wants to see that let alone pay for it
Just quit
You don’t have what it takes to be successful in real estate
Totally fine but time to move on
…aren’t you a resi broker?
Bumping this for actual feedback (not OP). Burning out at exactly the wrong time - in a good seat, dev deals to execute and pipeline to work on in a terrible market, new baby at home and daycare ($) starting up..
Any tips for managing burnout, and ideas on what a ‘downshift’ job would look like, coming from a very active developer. Understanding it won’t be $300k for doing nothing. And I probably won’t leave, but I think just knowing and thinking through other options helps - sometimes it just feels like if I don’t make it here at current role my life is fucked, which I know isn’t true ..
If it makes you feel better I’m in the exact same spot too. I’m thinking about moving out west to MT/WY/ID and taking a job at a community bank lol.
Unless you have a trust fund, don't bounce in this market... Raise your hand to your immediate boss, ask for some time to clear your head or help to think through the most pressing issues, and/or figure out how to check whatever is burning you out at the door. Hopefully having a new baby at home helps you realize what's really important.
If anything, do the bare minimum to keep your sanity, while looking for a new gig. I left a great seat a few years back due to burnout and am now trying to find any role.
If your company values you and is reasonable, they should help reshuffle or balance out whatever is burning you out. If you can't have a straight conversation with your boss about this or think it will result in backlash, then you're probably at a toxic company and should focus on doing the bare minimum to bridge you to your next gig.
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