Do others suffer mental burn out after a day of work?

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I just changed offices, and I'm experiencing the same thing. I'm a caregiver/job coach for adults with special needs, and I never stopped moving at my old office. I was constantly helping somebody with something. My new office is geared towards higher functioning individuals, who are much more capable and need a lot less assistance and supervision.

I'm bored out of my mind, and somehow I'm completely drained after work. I used to go straight to my school after work and do homework or write until my evening classes, now all I want to do is go home and pluck around on the internet. (Like I'm doing right now.)

When I worked as a cashier, I used to collapse in the porch from exhaustion regularly. If it was the early morning (7am) shift I could usually sleep for 15+ hours straight. Now, I work 35 hours a week and that's about all I can manage and my job is easy to boot. I just don't know how people can possibly do 12 hour days without collapsing.

Heck I'm in my office right now typing this so I'm not exactly swamped with work.

Oh, most definitely. I'm basically useless probably 3 out of 5 days a week beginning the second I get home from work, and on the days that are exceptions I can't focus for more than an hour or so of productivity at home.

And on probably half of those "productive" days I just channel my potential usefulness into driving to Chipotle for a burrito or something

Yeah, I'm a cashier at a grocery store. A bad job for me in many ways now, and after I'm done a shift all I want to do is nothing. This makes it hard for me to do things I need to do because I'm so tired, and I've tried asking for another position at work.

I could honestly say that I would never pick cashiering again, I hate it with the passion of a thousand suns going supernova. It's just too much, and I'm past the point of job burnout.

I know what you mean. I've been working since the age of 15, and each job I've held was in the public sector. This week alone, I'm putting 60 hours in as a retail clerk. The only thing I have found that helps is turning to my hobbies when I get home. Though sometimes I end up sleeping too. If you can't unwind after work, sometimes the stress builds. Heh, my house is in shambles currently but any day I must get up and go to work, is a day I don't do any work at home. Housekeeping can wait until the weekend!