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

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Ok so a little background about my self. I am 28 and have never erally held long term stable "normal" jobs. I graduated HS after m 9th grade, was diagnosed with lots of things that didnt quite hit the mark(never diaged ASD when i should have been). I have two of my business that I have been trying to do during my lonely days at home living my parents. I could go into this more but dont find it relevent right now. Suffice it to say that supporting my self through my own companies is my long term goal.

I started a new job last week. Its easy, I sit at a computer and take calls all day long. It is an almost perfect environment for me, I dont feel stressed out all day, I dont feel like the people around me are judgmental about me, I dont feel inferior. I spend most of my day lost in my own little world but board.

When I get home I feel mentally exhausted. Alls I want to do is lay on my bed and do nothing untill falling asleep and starting over the next day! I can barly type the very words I am putting into this post and it is almost time to go to bed again!

I have responsabilites at home with my own work. They were created with the excessive creativity and time that I had to cultivate them in my own time. They are just at he point of really starting to take off and for the first time I see a clear path to being able to support my self with them. But I have no energy left to take care of the things I need to do! Work is going unfinished and my projects have hit a stand still.

To make this all even more confusing I only began to understand(admit to my self, accept) that I have an ASD and I am trying to grapple with this at the same time. Its a major life issue. Not only that, but now that we have been on the phones for a week we are required to do mandatory overtime! I have to be at work by 6:30AM on monday. My lifestyle is accustomed to dicking around UNTIL 6:30 am >.<

I need monies so that I can finally move out and not be a loser any more. I absolutely REFUSE to spend a nother summer to broke to go on a date and not have anyplace to take a date home to if I do have a GF. But that just makes me a working stiff. I need to make my companies profitable so that I can quite my job in the mean time (I have no problem working a combined 80hrs a week if i have the energy).


Does anybody else feel like dont have a lot of brain juice left after work. I feel like my mental condition only leaves me with so much ability thought a day. After spending all day at work I feel like my brain just needs to unwind. I think that when we kind of people hit a wall mentally we really hit that wall hard. Who can sympathize?

Is it a 40 hour work week? I only work 30 hours because I can't take more than that... Low pay of course, but it means I have can have a life of my own.

I often feel burned out when I get home from work. I usually lie in bed for an hour, then I get up again and make dinner, watch TV etc.

Have you tried doing some excersice? I go to the gym sometimes, just some running or something like that. I believe it gives me more energy in my daily life.

I'm afraid I found my ability to cope with a long working week declined with age - a common pattern in my family looking around at others. I was no longer able to manage regular 12 hour days without exhaustion leading to illness, so I got pensioned off at 57 on health grounds.

For me, it depends on the job.

I've had jobs that stressed me physically and mentally. Either can make me too tired to do anything when I get home. I don't mind working hard, but if it's when I'm over tasked that it poses a problem.

It's the main reason I really refuse to work more than 40 hours a week. Part of it is that I want my "me" time, but I really can't function in any kind of balanced way if I'm at work so much that I can't take care of my needs when I get home.

yeah. depends on how many people i have to interact with, too. but generally having to work outside the home is very tiring to me. I also think new environments and situations, while often interesting, also take a lot of my energy. You are getting a lot of new stimulation and for me that burns up a lot of energy.

Good luck with the new job! and take good care of yourself while you get adjusted. hopefully you will start feeling less tired as you get accustomed to the new situation. whether you do or don't, self-care is key.

Spoons.
Sounds like you're running out of them.
It's an issue for sure.
Check out: Spoon Theory

The basic premise: you only have so many spoons each day.
Every time you have to do something you use a spoon.
There's a limited amount when you're disabled, and you tend to run out if you have a lot to do.
Google 'spoon theory' for a m.

I sometimes get really burned out after a day of heavy coding.
Brain-fried.
Worse than other jobs I've had.

yes some days are worse than others.
i generally don't do much other activity during the week... and if the work week was bad, i tend to stay in my room practically the whole weekend.

people see me as normal, expect me to do things a 33 yr old woman would do... but i can't do that.
if they only knew and respected why i do the things i do...they would understand and not make things worse for me!

Thanks for the replies. I am to tired to go out tonight but plan on having some fun this weekend. going to try to take better care of my self while at work next week and get to bed earlier i think -_-

I think most people feel that way. I feel like a zombie during the week, and wake up on the weekends!

I also have a boring office job... except mine starts at 5am, so it's even worse. I've had some very active jobs in the past, including a stint as a stream surveyor, so I was pretty much a mountain man for a living for three months, and I find that sitting on my ass all day is far more exhausting than that job ever was.

When I get home from work I don't feel burned out but that's only because I have the easiest job in the world. It's only four hours on Monday and four hours on Friday. When I get home I don't feel fatigue, only guilt and shame because I don't have a real job. This is something I may have to change.

I've never worked full time but I got burned out the times I studied full time and that put me off from further study or getting a full time job.

That's something I've wondered about, I was exhausted in school and college and the other students seemed to be doing fine so I wonder, is it because other students don't get exhausted because they have more energy than me or is it because it because other students get just as exhausted as I did but they have a higher pain threshold?
The same question applies for workers.


That's a pretty early start but do you still go home at the normal time?



Do you get paid at a higher rate for overtime? Do you get paid at all for overtime?
Sometimes I wonder about our society. If many are unemployed than won't mandatory overtime cause more unemployment?

I guess Devkit probably would because he's on a wage but if you're on a salary does that mean you'll never be compensated for overtime?
Maybe salarymen don't have predefined working hours so they shouldn't be surprised if they work 12 or 14 hours a day and weekends too
but in that case how do they have a life?

I guess the 8 hour work day was only invented to calm the working classes and was never intended for the middle classes.

I think I keep picking cooking jobs because I can't deal with the lack of stimulation in other professions. Sure I'm verbally smart but performance wise I can't process the same info I can store fast enough for other people. Having average performance and processing speed is fine though when cooking in a restaurant. Also, I always expect the unexpected because that's always what happens, so there is consistency in chaos there. Another thing, I get to stim all day long, moving around, I just direct my energy into job functions, like twirling my tongs or tapping them on the cutting board, etc. I'm reaching, bending, stooping, pulling, putting, all kinds of happy kinesthetic stimulation for me (both my ADD and ASD side love it just fine).

Okay, TL;DR : I have chosen an occupation that meets my autistic needs. Also, when I get home from work, I'm totally exhausted but my mind is clear and ready for anything because it wasn't taxed much at work, so I can research whatever I want usually. When it's too busy at work and things break or we run out of product, then I come home and can't do anything but stare at my computer screen and wish I was already in bed.

To my above post, at the end I'm saying, choose a profession that you can do that isn't draining, so you can focus on your more important businesses. The profession you choose that suits you is worth more than a job that pays you.

I'm also confined to an office. It does not fit my work pattern very well, as I work in spurts - and can be highly creative when doing so. But the remainder of the 8 hours in the office I'm pretty bored. Spend a lot of time daydreaming and surfing around, gives me a guilty conscience.

I also nurture a small business that I hope will grow some day. I'm not interested in having people employed though, I've been in a manager role once and hated it. So my challenge, even with a successful business, would be to fight loneliness. My current job at least gives me that - I have a lot of people around me. Even if I love being alone most of the time, my mind starts drifting to negative thoughts if I'm alone too much.

I have the same problem. I have a white collar professional research job and most days I come home and don't even feel like taking a bath. I travel a lot for work, which makes me even more tired. What complicates this is that I had two concussions not too long ago, which has impacted my ability to work.

I feel you.

Even when unbelievably bored at work, it still drained me. It's tough.
My husband is a homemaker, so I know it frustrates him when I'd get home and not want to go back out again or do much aside from cook dinner and read and play quietly with the kids.

My one coping mechanism is to read only familiar books. He thinks it's silly, but, that's an additional mental burden I just don't need.

I'm not as bored in my new job, so, do tend to feel slightly more energized, but, I'm working later hours, so it doesn't give me much downtime at home. ~shrugs~ What are you gonna do? I'm a working stiff now and have a mortgage to pay and a family to support.