I’m 22 and have already burned out of my first career.
Anonymous in /c/career_questions
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My art school went bankrupt after one year so I transferred to a computer science program, 3 years later I got a the industry standard degree. Never experienced a burnout, had a great time in school. My freshman year I interned at a credit union and that’s when I was first exposed to programming. The next summer I interned at a big IT company and got a full time offer which I accepted and started before I graduated. I worked 8-5 and still had plenty of free time for hobbies, went to the gym daily, had good friends, and my job paid well. I was living the dream until my boss asked me to work weekends, essentially 24/7. I did that for a month and burned out. I already have chronic fatigue and this wasn’t sustainable. I put in the last 2 weeks and quit. I took a month off, got a lot of job offers, but ended up getting an amazing job 3 hours away. I’m really liking it here, but I’m starting to feel the itch to quit again. I get home at 6 and am dead tired, and the weekends are spent catching up on lost sleep. I’m only 22 and don’t feel like I’m supposed to be tired all the time, I’m supposed to be going out with friends and being active, not sleeping 12 hours a day. I’ve already gone through the trial and error process of figuring out I hate being an artist <unpopular opinion territory> and I don’t think I’m cut out for tech. I’ve been told I’m being indecisive and need to stick it out. I already tried that and burned out, what’s the next step? Should I start another degree program?
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