Comment by phamilton4

Let's see... 14 days on call every 3 months. 3 releases a week. All the normal review work. PRs, design, etc. SCRUM meetings. Meetings before the meetings. Crazy deadlines which were arbitrarily given by someone in another group. Being up late to make changes because the business deems it too risky to do it during regular business hours. Endless performance testing, e2e testing which always generates defects that arent really defects but still need 30m of my time. Upgrade this or that to the latest. version because xyz no longer supports what you have. Endless security vulnerabilities that need to be upgraded. Pipelines that need to be upgraded or fixed just to get a release. Failing tests which need to be investigated. Hundreds of configuration points which control process flows. Never ending lower environment problems. RTO. Constant fear of being laid off.

Definitely no way anyone could be burnt out.

I actually want to work on my own projects during the weekends if I can. That somehow brings me happiness compared to what I work on at work, which is bogged down by external issues. My personal projects I have no one to report status updates to, no one to tell me "I'm doing it wrong" no customers to support, freedom to mess up. Lol