Wow, the second call to designers in just a few days. It seems that someone needs some advice.
You know the famous burnout syndrome, or if you don’t know, you’ve seen it around. People working and working till they drop dead on their mental tracks. Everyone has a different way of expressing it but it’s there – you just can’t go on anymore like this.
What’s your advice for confronting stress-induced routine and burnout, both in your work and personal projects?
How do you face the all-too-familiar feeling of being useless and empty?
Or if you never felt like that – how in God’s name do you do it?
I’m really interested to hear a bit more from my fellow designers – or not.
Photo courtesy of jurvetson
5 comments on this post
stelios #1
27.Feb.09
holidays. forever.
adamo #2
27.Feb.09
Two words:
- Holidays
- Friends
Nick Andrik #3
27.Feb.09
I was about to say holidays but seems aothers came before me.
Honestly, my best ideas come when I am relaxed and I don’t think about work. Holidays, things that make you relax! Like they say in english (forget and) sleep on it!
George #4
27.Feb.09
1) Work only on one project each day
2) Exercise
3) Party as often as I can
4) Gratitude for all the good things in my life
acidsmile #5
27.Feb.09
I got burnt out in the beginning of last year and on my comeback i wrote this post http://tinyurl.com/bc5kvd
I fell off the grid, kept work to the bare minimum to keep clients and boss happy and spent the rest of the time doing other stuff, reading, playing, spending time away from my mac.
It helped. A lot!