noamelf

I always feel a little strange among all the other 9-5 workers. It's really difficult for me to do that every day of the week. It's not that I'm not enjoying work or anything like that, while I'm at the office I totally enjoy it, but I once I get home I feel drained out, as if I can't do anything but watch TV. It's like all my mental powers are gone and I can only do the simplest thing possible.

Thing is, when people are talking about burn out, they usually mean 60 hours work week, so complaining about a 40-45 work week feels spoiled. Maybe my psych is not built for continues effort but short sprints and relaxation. When I stay to work from home, and split my work day into 2 halves, morning till noon, and evening until night, I feel much better, though I still work the same time more or less. Problem is, this is not something I can do regularly since It's not common to work from home where I work, and I'm leading a dev team so I need to be around.

Does anyone else feels the same way? How do you handle daily burn out?