Preventing and Dealing with Burnout in Web Development
April 11, 2018, 1:44 p.m. (6 years, 7 months ago)
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Scott and Wes Chat about burnout!
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Show Notes
01:50
- What is burnout?
- Losing Enthusiasm for web development
- That Hustle
7:00
- Why is being burnt out bad?
- Putting off hobbies
12:30
- How do you prevent burnout?
- Farming out Work
- Automating content
- Busy work
18:00
- Aggressively turn down meetings
- Work to cut out busy work
- Locus on Control
- Managing Email and Notifications
- Scrubbing Plates
24:00
- Health and Nutrition
- Sleep
27:00
- Motivation
- What to do when you just don't like the work you are working on
- Small Wins
- Learning new Things
- Getting a new job
- Taking Courses
- Keeping Up With The Codeashians
37:00
- Being overworked at work
- Overtime
41:00
- So you've burnt out, what do you do?
- How do you reignite the spark?
- Taking a day off
- Delegating GitHub
- Online chat with other developers
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