Have you ever reached a burn out in your job?

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Exactly that?

I think I have, i'm ready to crack.

In a nut shell - I work in a high demand job, little pay and I often have to cover for other people (whom earn more money than me), its also customer service based and the demands are just sole destroying.

Its getting so bad that when an inbound call comes through I feel like i cant even speak, we have meetings today for the 2019 horizon and I can even bring myself to go. I just have no interest. My heart pounds when I have cover the front desk as nearly every customer we get is a complaint or speaks to me like utter shit.

I feel like crying before going to work and on a Sunday I'm a mess. I have never had this before in a job. has anyone else? I feel like I have just hit a wall with the job and.

I am in a really shitty job atm - contract job for the next 6 months and am almost sick with nerves every day. Only manage a couple of hours exhausted sleep on a Sunday as the fear sets in. I know I have reached burn out in my current career and am starting to reskill in a completely different area. I usually have nerves but this time it's totally off the radar and is freaking me out.

Omg this is me at present.

Been in job 10 years exactly same job and I was always really motivated but these last few months I literally couldn’t care. No interest, don’t want to go in.

I’m currently off sick and have been since early November. I have needed the rest to festers and manage my anxiety. No advice but maybe some time off??

I have too.

I started getting heart pains and ended up being signed off. I did a job supporting vulnerable people and it was just relentless risk based work, with referrals coming thro the door thick and fast, each one serious, could go wrong, could get investigated. It was too much for too long.

Getting that next job was such a weight off my mind!

Yes absolutely after 21 years in the NHS. I was burnt out, my sickness levels were high and I was self medicating with alcohol and on the top dose of AD’s.

I lost my job in Aug, and it was the best thing that could have happened. It was also terrifying! But I got another job (as a TA) within 3 weeks. Financially I’m about £300 a month worse off but I’m home every evening, my child care costs have halved, I don’t have a huge petrol bill. Most importantly I no longer take AD’s as I’m not depressed anymore, I dont drink to excess and I eat regular meals. I’m a better person, friend, daughter and most importantly mother.

I would advise prioritising getting a different job ASAP. Put yourself first as no one else will.

Dust off that CV because these kind of jobs NEVER get any better. I speak from bitter experience - the hope that things will get better, it’s just a blip blah blah blah. Put yourself first and find something that won’t make you ill.

Thank god Im not alone.

I think i would love to go back into support work.

I deal with some of the rudest people on the planet at the moment. I even volunteer in oxfam on Saturdays while my daughter is at dance just to try and restore some faith in humanity

Yes, when I had 3 under 6!

Yes....feel sick in the mornings when I turn on my phone and laptop to check emails and messages. Not managing situations that I used to take in my stride, feel unsafe all the time

Yes- I was a recruiter. Burnt out after 5 years and left and went to work in the third sector. Never looked back

Im motor trade....its deffo time to go.

I know employment is at all time high at the moment but my god how many people are struggling like this. Life is too short to fill with daily dread. If i could afford it, I would leave tomorrow x

I nearly left teaching because of the stress, insomnia, crushing feelings of worry, feeling sick at the thought of going in some days.
Changing schools was the best thing for my health.
Like other posters, I'm advising you get dusting your CV off and most importantly look after yourself.

Thou shall be preparing cv tomorrow. 2019 has to be a new career start.

This was the year of weight loss and getting health on track....2019 job on track. Xx

I was a front line police officer for 13 years, but after a drug addled man tried to smash us up with a metal pipe, I had had more than enough. In fact I was on the verge of going off sick to reassess my options. Fortunately (!) I suffered an injury shortly after that was severe enough to take me off the front lines in the medium to long term, and I have been redeployed in an investigative/office role which I actually enjoy.

NHS. Took early retirement last year. The last 2 years were what did for me. Stress so bad I'd cry myself to sleep on Sunday nights, medicate with vodka, jump out of my skin when my phone rang, hated my boss so badly I would have actually walked quietly out of his office and closed the door if I'd found him having a heart attack or something. Awful. After about 8 months I felt well enough to return when they asked me to help out for a few weeks. I got there, sat down and the phone rang. They nearly had to scape me off the ceiling!

Flossietoot I’m a recruiter/headhunter, have been on and off for 18 years, and never known it be as tough as now.
Clients are being extremely difficult to please, always trying to cut % for fees, nothing is moving fast.
I’m on the verge of giving up, but no idea what to do.
Like others on the thread, im anxious all the time, panicked, unmotivated, no idea how to get my mojo back.

I had a motortrade recruitment business tiger and i had to give it up. There was no compromise with clients. I had the lowest fees but with a low refund time (30days as probation was never being passed and i was refunding so much). Id have amazing candidates, never good enough.

Just a heads up you mentioned support worker it's getting ridiculously brutal in most support worker roles now

I'm in health and social care ,have been for coming on 20 years , I've got burn out twice

First was in 2005 and had 6 weeks off work...the hours and the constant risk assessment and the constant abuse hot to me

The second time luckily I was pregnant with dc2 and could go off early....never wen back to that particular role...because I had got a call about 6 deaths related to a nasty batch of heroin and for the first time I instantly thought of the paperwork

I knew then I was on my knees and had lost my empathy

I'm back in a senior role in a high pressure part of health and social care but I'm obsessively protective of my home life and down time

I've earnt the right to be but I am protective of my team and try extremely hard that they won't go through the same thing

Move jobs OP it's soul destroying when you get to that stage , change parts of the industry or take a break

If I've learnt anything it's to protect yourself to live to fight another day

There are still weeks I work 90 hours a week but now I take it easy the week after

The other day I realised my back and legs ached because I had been hunched over for 9 hours with no break , no stop ,not even a wee (nearly wet myself when my body finally tuned in) ...the person o was dealing with was safe and over the crisis and all the services I oversee were safe

I took the next day off

I entirely realise that's not always possible so leave take a breath

I'm approaching that, yes.
Off sick because I've got a virus but I think I got the virus because I'm so low, stressed and anxious and it's relentless. I realised I'm reaching burn out because I have stopped caring as much about my job, I'm less tolerant, I don't sleep well, I DREAD Monday morning and my memory has become shockingly bad such that colleagues have begun to notice.

I've decided to take retirement end of next year when I reach NHS pension age, even though I will still need to work because I'll have a mortgage to pay. If I don't leave the NHS I'm going to be really ill, I can feel it. I used to love my job, really love it.

I struggled on with a stressful nursing career constantly dealing with horrible situations . I reached a point earlier this year after a particularly unsafe , twelve hour nightshift and something just snapped. I told my team leader that was it and I was handing in my notice. I was at breaking point . I am in a different career now and don't think I will ever go back to Nursing, I am on the verge of letting my registration lapse. I am doing well in my new career and hopefully soon will be earning the same as I was doing Nursing. For the first time in 16 years this Christmas I will be having an extended period of time off with my family, my kids have only ever really known me work Christmas and/ or Boxing day.

Ooh baby I would love to get out of nursing

What job do you do?

@babyroobs

Its all just bonkers employers are ok with putting their staff through this.

I just know my colleague is going to phone in sick tomorrow. She has already planted the seed of sick, ill be at the gym, 06:30 and ill get a text so ill have to cut my pre work anxiety and de-stress workout short and race into work to do her hours and her job for less pay. It happens every few weeks. Just added shit i dont need.

Yes. 2.5yrs in a senior NHS role almost ended me. It came on top of 5 years of serious and chronic stress in my home life too. Toxic combo. 18 months on I am still recovering.

I left the job 12 months ago and now am self employed. Have had to put serious boundaries in place to stop it happening again.

Please think about yourself here. I have just had a huge heart health scare due to stress at work. No job is worth your health or your family x

Yes. Another NHS worker in an understaffed environment juggling multiple high risk cases and an overwhelming workload. Reached breaking point one morning and was sobbing at work. I’ve been off sick for 3 months now. Feeling better, but it’s taking a very long time.
Now starting to contemplate going back to an altered role, but still feeling pretty anxious about it. I’m fine when not thinking about work. We’ll see.
If at all possible, take some time off. You won’t realise how deep the burnout goes until you stop.

Oh gosh,

I hope everysingle one of you here is on the road to recovery. Xx