Michelle PerchukTrusted Career Architect for Distinguished Professionals

The Career Coaching System That Pulled Me Back from Burnout

4 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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Transcript excerpt from a YouTube video in which Yi Fan, an AWS S3 manager, describes prolonged unsuccessful job-search efforts, extensive preparation without positive outcomes, and being pushed to the edge of a mental breakdown.

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Yeah, this is Yi Fan, all earnest. I'm currently working at AWS under S3, which is the cloud storage service. I'm a manager down there before Michelle. I think it's been over a year. I start looking and trying to find opportunity. I had some interviews in the past, but the outcome wasn't really good. And I spend a lot of time and, you know, learning and preparing, but, you know, it kind of really hurting me with, you know, tremendous amount of time I've been spending and there's no, no good outcome come out. So I'm actually at the edge of.
Mental breakdown. I will put this way. And.
Yeah, meeting Michelle is the next level that helped me.