Battling Burnout

You’ve done all the right things. You got the best grades, took the top jobs, completed every deliverable on time if not early. Your boss would be lost without you, but doesn’t recognize all that you do to keep the lights on. When you think back to your younger self, you were so full of fire and passion and interest but now you just feel like an efficiency machine. You’re reliable, your biggest flaw is you’re a perfectionist. You never ask for help because no one can do the job like you can and when they try it’s extra work for you to explain what you need and fix it after the help is given. You feel like you’re on an island. Your LinkedIn is stellar, your resume a thing to be envied, but you feel empty inside. You’ve lost myself, that younger you who had something to say, who was going to change the world. The only time you have to express true emotions is alone in the bathroom stall at work or after a bunch of drinks with my friends. You dream about your job, not in a good way, you see your calendar & to-do list in your sleep. You go to sleep and wake up with your phone in hand. You are expected to be always on 24/7. Your work is your life, your relationship, your identity, but when you look at yourself in the mirror you don’t recognize the face looking back at you. You want to get the real you back.