<story><title>Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.&lt;p&gt;Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrburton</author><text>Personally, I&amp;#x27;m not burnt out.&lt;p&gt;To void burn out, I did a few things which I feel are extremely helpful.&lt;p&gt;1. Have a room that is a dedicated office. When I leave this room, I leave the &amp;quot;office&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;2. Establish communication throughout the day. This means having slack conversations (typed and video) that are casual. It&amp;#x27;s okay to vent on these calls.&lt;p&gt;3. Have a defined schedule - Awake at 6am, washed&amp;#x2F;dressed by 6:30am, Red Bull (or if you like food) and at my desk by 7am. I do work long hours, but I enjoy it because I&amp;#x27;m accomplishing something.&lt;p&gt;4. Work on something that excites you or find joy in your work somehow.&lt;p&gt;5. Lastly, realize most of the mental stress can be managed with a little mindfulness, learning to accept that you still can grow and find joy even when at home and cut back on social media; or if you&amp;#x27;re like me, I cut out 99% of social media.&lt;p&gt;I hope everyone remains positive. Do something today, that makes you better tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>6. Don‘t have young kids at home.&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the unqualified snark here, just couldn‘t resist. The realities couldn‘t be more different for different people at this time.&lt;p&gt;Someone recently asked me whether I enjoyed my Corona free time as well.&lt;p&gt;I didn’t know what to answer as could not even comprehend the concept.&lt;p&gt;I‘m missing everything. Time for myself. Silence. Holidays. Physical movement. Sanity.&lt;p&gt;Work and Noise, non-stop, around the clock. Still falling behind on all projects with limited understanding of single colleagues with more time to kill than Netflix has content.&lt;p&gt;I love those rascals, but I‘m crashing on the couch every night and barely make it out of bed the next day. Just functioning and surviving.&lt;p&gt;Never been more exhausted in my life before.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.&lt;p&gt;Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrburton</author><text>Personally, I&amp;#x27;m not burnt out.&lt;p&gt;To void burn out, I did a few things which I feel are extremely helpful.&lt;p&gt;1. Have a room that is a dedicated office. When I leave this room, I leave the &amp;quot;office&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;2. Establish communication throughout the day. This means having slack conversations (typed and video) that are casual. It&amp;#x27;s okay to vent on these calls.&lt;p&gt;3. Have a defined schedule - Awake at 6am, washed&amp;#x2F;dressed by 6:30am, Red Bull (or if you like food) and at my desk by 7am. I do work long hours, but I enjoy it because I&amp;#x27;m accomplishing something.&lt;p&gt;4. Work on something that excites you or find joy in your work somehow.&lt;p&gt;5. Lastly, realize most of the mental stress can be managed with a little mindfulness, learning to accept that you still can grow and find joy even when at home and cut back on social media; or if you&amp;#x27;re like me, I cut out 99% of social media.&lt;p&gt;I hope everyone remains positive. Do something today, that makes you better tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e9</author><text>1. Kicked out my roommate and made an office. Didn&amp;#x27;t help.&lt;p&gt;2. It&amp;#x27;s very hard to do casual check-in with another person.I feel like I&amp;#x27;m bothering them too much. I can&amp;#x27;t get over it. Too stressful. Was way easier in person. Just feel the room and interrupt as needed.&lt;p&gt;3. I wake up early, take my pre-workout or red bull or 5h energy but just stare at the screen for 4 hours between 8 and noon and can&amp;#x27;t start.&lt;p&gt;4. I love the product but I can&amp;#x27;t start working wihtout others around me.&lt;p&gt;5. I hired multiple therapists. They put me on meds. I took medical leave. Nothing helped.&lt;p&gt;For me, work is for work and home is for home or for &amp;quot;work on autopilot&amp;quot;</text></comment>