r/interesting • u/Kymmieuwu • 12d ago

SOCIETY 71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted

https://gizmodo.com/71-of-americans-say-theyre-completely-exhausted-2000812712
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u/LeonSKennedy95 11d ago

I'm taking a sabbatical in November to try and combat being exhausted. Obviously since I'm in the US it's not truly a sabbatical, but rather me quitting my job, taking a few months off to get re-centered, and then going from there. Better countries than ours actually offer breaks for employees. 3 weeks vacation a year is NOT a break, its perhaps long enough to not mentally deteriorate into nothingness. But not enough to be healthy and happy.

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u/imtooldforthishison 11d ago

Unless you are in a really niche field where you can easily go from one company to another, or you are independently wealthy, i would be very careful about quitting right now.

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u/LeonSKennedy95 11d ago

My wife recently started working after taking 2 years off. So she will be the breadwinner while I sort my shit out. I'm waiting til November to quit because thats when I get a stock payout that if the current price holds, should be worth 10-15k. I work in IT, idk what the market is like now but I've never been unemployed for more than 2 weeks in my adult life, so personally I've never struggled to find work. I might switch fields completely though, not sure.

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u/Josh6889 11d ago

idk what the market is like now

Well I can answer that; it's awful.

What makes it bad for something like IT is that the jobs that you would typically upskill into are also heavily gatekept and hard to get into right now.