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Are You Suffering From Job Burnout? - Page 2

I don't know if I can constitute as being burnt out, but I am in need of a rest. Of course, it's also hard to pin point what exactly is the cause because I definately had my candle burning at both ends this semester. But I have noticed myself getting shorter and shorter with the girls, so I am definately looking to our staff training for the Summer. That will be a week without the girls, which I think we are all in need of. It gets hard not to get burnt out with little girls drama every day and dealing with the same disciplinary problems.

The week of a break will be great, and hopefully curb this problem.

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I am not at the end of a 'burnout' with my current job, but looking at the list there, I would say that a few years ago, I would have been pretty close to have been ticking off 9 out of the 13!

The job that I was in was alright to start off with, but the longer I worked for this particular family as a Nanny, the worse it got.

My boss was a Male who stayed at home and made his wife work full time, then brought in a Nanny to look after his children whilst he stayed in bed.

More and more jobs were piled on me,apart from what would be classed as 'normal' Nanny duties.
It even got to the stage where he wanted me to clean out the garage, clean out his rabbits, take the rabbits to have their nails clipped, fix the hoover-- when I couldn't fix their hoover, he really went beserk, shaking with anger and screaming in my face.

It got to the stage where he in my opinion was building up to being physically violent to me-- for example, he would wait for when I was coming in from the garage with laundry, and then would jump from behind the door at me to make me jump.

On another occasion, he dragged me by my wrist through 3 rooms to show me that his cat had lifted up the corner of his rug? It really wasn't rational behavior, and every day he would scream at me and his cleaner. It got so bad that I felt sick every day at the thought of going in to work, and was even more annoyed with myself for putting up with it.

Another thing that he did, was he was Jehovah witness, and he would like to test my knowledge of the Bible, if I answered something different to what he believed, he got really nasty over it, and 'set me homework' to come back the next day with a reason why I could believe in something different, with at least 3 points of reference from the Bible to back up my beliefs--- Really bizarre!

When I eventually decided that enough was enough, I went to the Nanny agency that I was already registered with on the Thursday, by Friday they had me 3 job interviews lined up, Saturday I had been interviewed for 1 of the jobs that I accepted, and by Monday, I handed in my notice.
It was worth it to see his face!
I handed my notice, and had the strength to stand up to him, and I told him that I didn't deserve to be treated like that. To my amazement, he actually agreed.
It was the best move that I ever made, and it taught me a valuable lesson in standing up for myself,I am determined that no job is worth being treated like that again for.!

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I have some of these signs… yet I studied to get the job I have now (Pastry cook)

However, my major is in Graphic Design, but no one has given me a job in it, so I feel lost… It is a torment that has circled in my head and upset my stomach for quite a while, and as much as I do like my current job, I've done so many screwups, that I feel like I don't belong, even if I do like making desserts (Its so far the best job I've had, but I still feel unsatisfied.)

Thought I'd let that out…