However you misunderstood where I was coming from. I point out I was lucky enough to be able to take time off to focus on my health, and hint that that is sadly not something everyone can do.
I was able to do this not because of being employed in a high paying tech job, but because of strong union negotiated benefits.
I live in a European country with a sane perspective on work life balance and a strong social safety net.
I will also add that what was written questioned the public statements of individuals that write about dealing with burnout in a single month, not that the very probable situation where individuals have burnout and only have the ability to take a single month off exist.
Where are these messages of people dealing with burn out in a month. I haven’t seen them. Took me a year and more while working. You don’t need to be taking a break, just change of project/environment can be enough from experience.
Like all these articles say, burn out comes from a number of sources, removing these will end up fixing things over a period of time.
However you misunderstood where I was coming from. I point out I was lucky enough to be able to take time off to focus on my health, and hint that that is sadly not something everyone can do.
I was able to do this not because of being employed in a high paying tech job, but because of strong union negotiated benefits.
I live in a European country with a sane perspective on work life balance and a strong social safety net.
I will also add that what was written questioned the public statements of individuals that write about dealing with burnout in a single month, not that the very probable situation where individuals have burnout and only have the ability to take a single month off exist.