I’ve experienced burnout throughout work and education since I was sixteen. Usually around once every 12-18 months. I’ve accrued a lot of associated trauma.
For context, burnout for me is extreme depression and executive dysfunction lasting for months at a time to the extent I stop all work and social activities.
I finally got out of sales almost two years ago, and I’m still not feeling burnout! (Sometimes a particularly tough day will bring a little bit, but it’s not an every-day dread to get out of bed kind of feeling)
I got into sales when I was young and never enjoyed it, but I was good enough to make money. Then, once you have a twenty year resume of sales positions, people are very unlikely to hire you for much else. Despite what the college degree says.
Fortunately, I found a boss who’s as ADHD as me (I only mention that, because I suspect that we ADHDers can spot each other from a mile away and naturally “get” each other) at the local college and now I get paid to throw parties!