?<\/span><\/span>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/span><\/p>\nI’ve almost always been an anxious human (one of my first words as a child was worried which says a lot \ud83d\ude02), and I’ve had a few experiences of burnout in the past. <\/span><\/p>\n It has historically centred around work for me. The theatre industry (where I first started my creative career), is quite fast paced and high pressure, and in a lot of jobs there are huge expectations placed on designers. Budgets are low, so the wages were often low, which meant having to juggle multiple jobs at once which was often a challenge. <\/span><\/p>\nI found myself working very long hours to keep up with it all, and had the boundaries of that meme where there’s a wotsit in the place of a lock on a door, not ideal! The turning point came after a job where I spent a couple of months working until 4am most nights, and I felt like a total shell of myself, completely depleted. I’ve had less extreme feelings of burnout since then, but thankfully never that bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]In hindsight, were there any warning signs that things were getting out of control?<\/span><\/span>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/span><\/p>\nIt felt like every day I was on a runaway train. Like I’d gotten myself into a ridiculous situation, but the only way I could see to get myself out of it was to work a little bit harder. <\/span><\/p>\nIn hindsight, that was obviously making the situation worse, and actually, I just needed to hold firmer boundaries with my time. It was a hard lesson to learn, but it’s been extremely valuable in not letting things get that bad again. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]
What did you do to recover from your burnout and how long did it take to feel better<\/span>?<\/span><\/span>\n<\/strong>\nThis particular burnout was the catalyst for me moving away from the theatre industry and into running my own business. <\/span><\/p>\nSomething I learnt through switching careers is that the burnout I was experiencing wasn’t necessarily tied to a specific job, it was a pattern I was repeating in my own work habits that I started bringing into my own business too. <\/span><\/p>\nSo over the years I’ve had to do a lot of work on my own work habits, routines and boundaries. So it wasn’t really a direct recovery, more like a few years of sliding up and down the slope until I started to notice things that made me feel better or worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font_size=”16px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]