According to Eevee, working in the tech industry had worn it out to the point where it would come home from work feeling like it could no longer do anything with the rest of the day. Often, days involved either working on a solving a problem at work or thinking about how to solve those problems. Even simple things like cleaning junk off its desk seemed too much of a luxury – time that it could put to better use. Eevee points out that the problem isn’t with Yelp specifically; rather, it’s the job itself and having people dump problems regarding broken code and whatnot. It was also a bigger issue of having to face an industry where every company is trying to reinvent the wheel, despite a reality in which the wheel has already been reinvented several hundreds of times by many other tech companies. You can read the full blog post here, but Eevee’s post – whose grouse could likely be attributed to burnout – makes valid points regarding the state of the tech industry. If you consider the number of times various startups have claimed to be the next “Uber for X”,”Facebook for Y”, or “Tinder for BLERGH”, then Eevee’s arguments regarding unnecessary innovations and faux reinventions merit full validity. I mean just this Monday, Apple announced the relaunch of Apple Music at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, a competitor to Spotify that is just another iteration of your standard streaming music service. Is the entire tech industry just one gigantic ouroboros? Going back to burnout, though, Eevee’s post is just another example of why we need to stop glorifying burnout as a sign of achievement. Burnout affects us both mentally and physically, and causing us to ultimately want to quit our jobs. To try to avoid this burnout, check out some of these tips. Read Eevee’s full blog post here. (H/T Hacker News)
