Burnt out on a three-day week
A professional product leader shares her experience with burnout despite working a reduced three-day schedule. The article explores how traditional advice like resting or changing jobs often fails to address the underlying causes of professional exhaustion.
Why it matters
It challenges conventional wisdom regarding burnout, suggesting that the issue may be more complex than simple overwork.
Maya spent over a decade at a healthtech company. She worked her way up from IC to people manager, running her own team, and she was thriving on the director track. Then she stepped back to deal with a health issue.
Now she’s a fractional product leader three days a week for a startup while job-hunting to try and return to enterprise work. That health situation has since resolved. At three days a week, this is the lightest workload she’s had in many, many years. Yet she’s been struggling with feeling burnt out.
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