Reply to: Anyone suffered/suffering burnout?

[shaunbhoy]

The Celts have only managed it by successfully repelling invaders..........

HTH

FTFY

[Troll]

Nah. Aryan Nations is so last year.

I've just joined the Muslim Nation! Inshallah Akbar!

Nation of Islam ...splitter

[Troll]

Does that include the English then? They are such a mongrel heinz 57 nation these days, not sure their racial purity stands up to much scrutiny. The Celts on the other hand....................

The Celts have only managed it by my marrying their siblings

HTH

[shaunbhoy]

Ayran Nations is where it's at these days

Does that include the English then? They are such a mongrel heinz 57 nation these days, not sure their racial purity stands up to much scrutiny. The Celts on the other hand....................

[MarillionFan]

BNP is sooooo 2008 .... Ayran Nations is where it's at these days

HTH

Nah. Aryan Nations is so last year.

I've just joined the Muslim Nation! Inshallah Akbar!

[Troll]

I've heard that too. But to make a go of it Troll, you'd need to take down those BNP Flags or you'd never get through the vetting process.

BNP is sooooo 2008 .... Ayran Nations is where it's at these days

HTH

[shaunbhoy]

I hear fostering can be quite lucrative

I've heard that too. But to make a go of it Troll, you'd need to take down those BNP Flags or you'd never get through the vetting process.

[Troll]

I took five years out to de-stress! Did some dog walking, ran a junk shop and fostered a 10 year old.

It was well worth it - I feel like a new person

I hear fostering can be quite lucrative

[Lea]

I took five years out to de-stress! Did some dog walking, ran a junk shop and fostered a 10 year old.

It was well worth it - I feel like a new person

[Aman]

I've been near it when off contract, due to sheer frustration of dealing with idiot pimps who don't know where London is.
On contract at least one can delegate or otherwise share the load.

[MayContainNuts]

You can sometimes do stupid things when you are stressed and don't realise.

I now cycle every weekend. I find that relaxing.

Do you have any hobbies?

[HairyArsedBloke]

I had a near burn out years ago. As a result I moved from IT to being a user. Would you believe that being a trader is less stressful than IT! However, the rot had set in and I’ve had various stages of poor health ever since (just got over a dodgy period recently).

These days I try not to give a frack about anything. I fail on a daily basis, but it a state that I should aspire to. It’s all a bit Zen.

If I was to do something outside computers or being a speckulant, I’d like to make thing that people could enjoy consuming. I’d like to be a winemaker, brewer, maybe a baker. Not a chief or cook though.

[Support Monkey]

mate of mine is a carpenter and he took some time out and went out to the Africa somwhere and was building a wendy house for a village school, a bit more satisfying than fitting B and Q kitchens

Take your skills and do somehting usefull for some under-privileged people, it might put things into perspective

[Svalbaard]

I took a year out a while back for the same reasons and I did quite a lot of travelling when sailling, climbing and diving.

Most rewarding of all though was working as a volunteer teacher, teaching basic computing and basic maths and english skills to people who hadn't done very well at school, and also to middle aged / old people trying to get to grips with email and the web and stuff. I was shocked to find out though just how many 20+ year olds couldn't even do the basic maths operations or recite simple muliplication tables. Very sad.

In the end though, the support costs behind the volunteer program were cut when Nu Labour had had its "media moment" and that tells you everything you need to know about our previous G'mnt.

[NotAllThere]

Is there anything that you really want to do? Learn a language, how to cook? Do a plumbing/sparkies course?

If you're off your regular work, you still need some goals and daily structure.