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Are You Growing Your Career or Just Running Toward Burnout?

15 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker emphasizes the importance of taking regular breaks and using weekends to recharge, warning that neglecting rest can lead to burnout. They share a personal anecdote about never truly taking leave—still working during vacation and feeling responsible for the company's operations—yet acknowledge that occasional work during leave can have benefits like increased visibility and referrals. The speaker stresses that rest should be balanced, not equated with laziness, and encourages listeners to adopt occasional, intentional downtime to maintain health and perspective.

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Take it easy on yourself. Give yourself a break. For instance, maybe like just basic, take your weekends, right? Go and have fun, do some other things with your life, um, and come back refreshed, come back with a different perspective. Um, because if you don't rest forever, you will probably burn out, right? This, and this is a mistake I made. I never took my, um, leaves. I mean, even when I took leaves, I will still be working on leave period. Right? I'll still be on maybe some calls. I'm still like tending to something as if the whole company will crash if I was not there. And this has benefits. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's not just— it's not just one thing. This has benefits in that like you become valued, you get referrals, you get all of that. But I mean, yeah, do it as much as you can, but don't— don't do it to the detriment of your health, right? Yeah, yeah. But don't take it as, oh, go and be lazy. Don't take it as go and be lazy. So yeah, there's a way. Yeah, just like it— make it balanced. The occasional rest. Yeah.