Getting out of Burnout

As the pandemic disrupted everyone's lives, my first degree got moved to home working… halfway through the second term which screwed up the whole system as we had no lectures at that time. It was so unproductive for me as I had no clue what to do since nothing was prepared. But I left with a 1^st class Hons degree and assumed I was over education.

But as things didn’t improve in the world, I returned to university for a second degree, and in term 2 I managed to get a full-time job. This was extremely hard and stressful as I had no free time. When I finished work, I had to go straight back into uni work. Sometimes I had to attend lectures and work at the same time, it was hard to stay productive and I finally got burnt out…

Burnout made me procrastinate and just give up on all work, I stopped being organised and caring about myself, physically and mentally. It took at least two months to get back to normal. I was able to get my second degree passed in June and as it’s August, this is me finally back to being productive. I wrote a blog post on this in December as that was when it started. Probably due to the fact I had a one week break before the new degree began. 

Now, I have to learn to stop overworking as it reaches 5 pm when I should log off, I will keep working till 4 am as I have been used to this for like 6 years. It is hard since my room is my office and the place I sleep so it’s a struggle to disassociate. I need to focus on relaxation to keep my sanity or I will crash again. I need a long vacation but I sadly don't have the annual leave days needed...

The advice I have is, take breaks and when it hits the end of the working day…log the hell out!