1. Burnout as a Career Threat
The speaker explains: burnout is an extreme danger to mental and physical health that decreases productivity, forces time off, and can cause developers to quit entirely.
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1:00 · 11 May 2023
The Biggest Career Killer For Developers
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2. Ways to Prevent Burnout
The speaker explains: burnout can be prevented by managing oneself through boundaries, breaks, and healthy habits, and by working on exciting things at companies you believe in.
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Your biggest enemy to a successful developer career, and by successful, I mean a long and productive career, not a three-year stint, but a 20-year long career. Your biggest obstacle in getting there, and the one that most developers, particularly the younger ones, ignore, it's burnout. Burnout, it's extremely dangerous to your mental and physical health, as it will force you to take time off. It will decrease your productivity and in some cases, make you quit altogether, which is the equivalent of tossing years of work to the garbage.
There are mainly two ways to prevent burnout as a developer. Number one, it's managing yourself. Set boundaries. Don't work over hours. And if you do, take a break after. Eat healthy, exercise, take care of your mind. And number two, it's working on things that you believe in, as much as you possibly can. This comes down to the kind of company you will be working for. If you take care of yourself and you work on stuff that keeps you excited, you will be able to stay at it more than most developers, who get burned out every six months and either quit all together, or job hoop impulsively, hoping the next place will be different.