I’m only 23, but I feel like I am experiencing the burn out of an old man who’s been in the same office job for 25 years. I work minimum wage service jobs because those are literally the only places that will hire me. High turnover rates, entitled customers, dramatic coworkers & the biggest performance of my life 8 hours a day for 5 days a week. When my shift is over, I just ruminate about how I have to go in the next day. I don’t know how to make myself feel less miserable over this stuff.
I should add, my therapist thinks I have autism. From my understanding, a lot of people with autism experience major burnout cycles because of masking & having to suppress a lot of emotions & such. I feel this completely, but I can’t not to work for weeks or months at a time. How do neurodivergent people cope? How do neurotypical people cope?
I have so many passions & goals; just never enough time, energy or money to achieve them. It’s making me incredibly bitter & depressed. I know these probably sound like excuses, I just don’t know how people balance these things.