POV: What is Burnout?

Hapa Jane
4 min readMay 28, 2021

Burnout. The one word I didn’t want to feel. I love my job.

We’ve heard this terminology before in third person.

‘Anna was so burnt out from her job’

What does burnout mean exactly? To each person, this feeling is expressed differently but I will try to explain this in human words and share my experience.

This is my personal experience with burnout.

How did the burnout start?

It started slowly— you may notice small red flags that you will ignore. The red flags…

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