This is... this... wow, this guy has no idea what he's talking about.<p>"I don’t consider myself very devoted to my work, but I’ve been writing code every day for two years."<p>Yeah, come back when you've been doing it for a decade, kid. Come back when you've been doing it as part of a team, after you've spent days solving a bug that's been preventing your stuff from working, and came from someone else who was in the same hurry you are. Come back when...<p>I'm going to stop. This is a fluff opinion piece from someone with little experience and wrong facts (33h work-week? lol). I wish I could downvote it.
Burnout doesn't come from daily git commits, it comes from frustration and a desire to prove yourself.<p>It's not just in your head, and jogging isn't going to fix it.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_(psychology)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_(psychology)</a>
I don't understand his argument. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that burnout is a form of depression and thus burnout exists in the mind. I think the issue is that burnout is a form of depression that is <i>caused</i> by overwork. Overwork is not just about the number of hours worked. The causes of burnout vary drastically.<p><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/adult-health/in-depth/burnout/art-20046642" rel="nofollow">http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/adult-health/in-dep...</a>