Are you burned out even on vacation?

Here’s what to do.

Vacation is not supposed to feel like another stressor rather than the break you needed and earned.

That’s how vacations felt for me before I quit my burnout job back in 2019. I had to do so much work to prepare the program for my absence, even with the support of my colleagues. Then when I got back, I had things to catch up on, problems to solve, and reports to complete with short deadlines.

Was I doing work wrong or was I doing vacation wrong?