Andy Stumpf

So that's my overall answer to this is you're going to be okay.

And

I don't know of a job or somebody who has done a job for years, if not decades and more, where they haven't described at least at times where they were burnt out, even if they really enjoy their job.

Here's a perfect example.

The podcast I'm doing right now.

I love doing this podcast.

Are there days where I just feel less like doing it than others?

Of course.

Is it because I'm burned out?

I don't know.

That would probably be the laziest description of it.

But a lot of times it has nothing to do with what's going on around the podcast and everything to do with what's going on in my life.

Maybe I'm training hard that week and I've been eating like a garbage pail and haven't been sleeping well, haven't been managing my hydration and my rest and my recovery.

It can make me feel like I'm burned out, but I'm not actually burned out.

I'm just tired.

And that expresses itself by a lack of desire of wanting to sit down and do the podcast, even though it's my favorite thing that I do.

So

It doesn't even necessarily have to be directly in line with your job.

I have heard a lot of officers that I know describe burnout in their career.

It is repetitive in nature, as many careers are.