Ask HN: What's your spectacular burnout story?
Quit my first job (software engineer) after 5 months.<p>I was burned out, not only from the work, but from spending my entire life following orders - from school to the workplace. So I quit my job after 5 months despite the fact that that&#x27;s considered sacrilege, with maybe $13k in my bank account.<p>I spent the next 3 months pursuing nothing but my hobby at the time (music production). The first month was possibly the best month of my entire life. It was the first time I truly felt free - no homework, no stress of finding a job, no having to be in an office from 9:30-5:30 M-F.<p>Then I ran out of money, so I had to start applying for jobs again. Ended up getting a much better job (both pay-wise and quality-wise), so it worked out.<p>Now I&#x27;m burned out again and completely sick of working in this industry. The day-to-day work is boring as hell, and I couldn&#x27;t care less about Javascript frameworks. I hate having to spend the bulk of my waking hours in the prison of an office.<p>But I continue working because I&#x27;m saving a lot of money every month. Currently have almost $100k in the bank. After this job, I&#x27;m going to take at least a good year off to do what I want to do, not what the labor markets force me to. I have a lot of passion in certain areas that I&#x27;m not able to devote full attention to due to work. I want to have a much greater positive impact on the world than being some menial code monkey working on proprietary software or a corporate Kool-Aid drinking cock sucker.<p>I&#x27;ve realized that I will never be happy in a traditional job. Being subservient and following orders is not in my nature.