Boring Job Burnout

The Busyness Paradox

Feeling overworked and dreaming of a new job with lots of downtime? One where marathon solitaire sessions fill the time between naps and happy hours? Careful what you wish for…making 10 hours of work fill a 40-hour week ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. If your employer is infected with the busyness bug, you’re likely to experience the delightfully paradoxical form of burnout that occurs when you’re actually underworked but everyone around you is pretending to be overworked. Tune in as we try to unpeel the paradoxical onion of boring job burnout in this episode of The Busyness Paradox.
Links to stuff mentioned in the show:

• 1:33 - Episode #25: Nixing Busywork with Niksen
• 2:17 - Man gets $45K severance package after declaring job "too boring"
• 13:13 - Episode #3: Are You Too Good at Your Job?
• 22:54 - Free online courses offered by Harvard University:
  • Web Programming with Python and JavaScript
  • Non-Profit Financial Stewardship
  • Jon Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854
  • Case studies in Functional Genomics
  • Improving your Business Through a Culture of Health
  • Becoming a More Resilient Leader in Turbulent Times
• 29:21 - Episode #27: Twice The Work In Half The Hours: The Dual-Career Individual
• 30:45 - Episode #10: The Four-Day Work Week

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