It’s surely not chance but some combination of algorithm and habitude, but everywhere I look, there’s a quiz about burnout. It would be functionally impossible for me to burn out, since I’m just not running hot enough. As I understand it, from the many quizzes, this is what burnout is: the hell of other people who want too much, expect too much, notice too little, don’t appreciate enough. I work alone and it’s hard to really get drawn in to that psychodrama from a distance. I’m like the warthog in The Lion King, caught between a pillow and a soft, soft place.
Still, I like to read them out for family members: “Have you lost interest in things you previously cared about?” “Do you feel like you do everything and nobody else does anything, or notices?” “Score five for ‘always’.”
