Supper Room 04: I've burnt out, now what

Aaron Powell grew up a technologist and always loved technology. Whether it was pulling apart old radios to figure out how they work or writing his first LOGO Writer application to see the turtle do something, he craved it, so becoming a software dev was always on the cards. Throughout his 20 years in the industry, he's had a lot of jobs and always loved where he worked.
COVID came and like everyone, Aaron had his struggles with lockdowns and home schooling, but he was already a remote worker so the isolation aspect wasn't a real "bother". Then, in late 2022, he just… stopped. He stopped enjoying my job. He stopped looking forward to work. He avoided technology outside of scheduled work hours. He'd find myself losing hours a day just staring at a computer screen.
It took him probably 6 months to admit there was a problem, and that problem was he was burnt out.
But what comes next? It's one thing to accept you're burnt out but where do you go from there? Let Aaron share his journey, from being on the cusp of a performance improvement plan to someone who is back to loving what they do and who can't wait to get started every day.
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Aaron Powell is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Having spent 15 years doing web development he's seen it all, from browser wars, the rise of AJAX and the fall of 20 JavaScript frameworks (and that was just yesterday!). Always tinkering with something new, he explores crazy ideas like writing your own implementation of numbers in .NET, creating IoC in JavaScript or implementing tic-tac-toe using git commits.

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Interesting topic as a tech background