Trying to Avoid Job Burnout

Too much stress about your job stability or overworking can lead to feeling unmotivated and actually threaten your employment. Many workers feel overworked and unappreciated. In these economic hard times a raise is not always forthcoming. This feeling can lead to overwhelming stress and tension causing employees to suffer from different health issues directly related to work stress. Here is some information to determine if you are suffering from on-the-job blues and ways to avoid becoming burnt-out on the job.

Do you feel dread and anxiety when you have to go to a job you once loved? Maybe you have been putting in too much time. Maybe you are due a raise and do not know how to approach the subject with your employer. Some symptoms of work related stress are irritability, unexplained crying, fatigue, teeth grinding, weight gain, insomnia, anxiety attacks and low productivity. Experiencing job burnout can lead to depression, anxiety and physical illnesses such as heart attacks and strokes.

Before you quit your job because you cannot handle the stress decide if the causes of your job burnout can be resolved. Determining the cause of your work stress is very important. Maybe your stress is related to how you deal with your employer and working on that relationship can help ease your burnout. Sometimes it just takes asking for help or reevaluating your workload to help alleviate your stress.

If you can find a workable plan to deal with your stress that would be the best resolution. There are some things you can do to work with burnout related to work, reduce your overtime, go on a vacation, or reprioritize your workload. If all these things have been tried and there is continued work related stress or burnout, this might be a time to investigate different employment or career.

The decision to leave your position may be your only option, if that’s so then exploring a career change could be helpful. Where you are, in your current profession may be the source of your burnout. Despite putting in a lot of time and money to get where you are now, you have to make the choice of staying and dealing with the high stress or taking a different career direction and resolving the stress.