Burn Out!

Fred believes he needs to get into a different profession to avoid burnout!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It turns out, guys that if we want to be
if we want to experience less burnout and we want
to feel completely and totally fulfilled in our lives, the
kind of job that we have would dictate whether that
we can do that. And I think we're just in
a wrong kind of job. I think that's why I'm
so burnt out. I'm burnt out. It's not because this

(00:21):
place is full of skitz and lies.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's not that at all.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
It has nothing to do with the skits and lies
of going around here all the time well and then
nothing happens. It has to do with the fact that
we need a more physically demanding or dirty job to
feel less burnout.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Sanitation construction.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Even exotic dancers may experience less burnout than those in
office roles. This could be because they have clear, more
tangible tasks and feel less self conscious about their work.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
So this is the problem.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
What we need is a dirty job, like apparently dirty
meaning dirty physically dirty, morally, we need a dirty job.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Take it off.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
But I can I can kind of see how this
is true. I agree with that too, because, like I suppose,
if you're doing a job and it's like here's the
here's the like, build this, Yes, this is the task
in hand, right exactly exactly, stack these bricks, you know whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Build this wall?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, make this, make this person give you a hundred bucks?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Build this? But why is it?

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Why why here? You go back on his schedule? You
know what?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
You didn't have to spend that. Okay, you know exactly
what I meant. All right, don't build that wall, build
another kind of hole. Your constructing job. I didn't say
you construction job in Arizona. I always say that. I
remember said that. Okay, do not miss you, enjoy the
soft I hate you. I'm no longer looking at you admiringly.

(02:14):
And that took three minutes whatever, whatever the thing is.
But do you have one I'm gonna have? Do you
have one of these jobs?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Eight?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Five, five, five, nine one oh three five? Do you
have one of these jobs? And do you think that's true?
Because you know around here it can be a little obscure.
You know, we come in here, we do a good job.
We think we do a good job. Some people tell
us that we suck, but it's okay. That will always happen.
And then and then we kind of cross our fingers
and we wait, we wait to see what the what
the writings people will tell us, and.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Usually it's it's decent news.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
And then every now and again, it's all of a sudden,
You guys are a bunch of morons.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
But we have no idea. We have no idea.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Office workers, though, have unclear tasks and are always getting
interrupted by emails, messages, notifications, which can lead to stress
and exhaustion. Apparently having a straightforward, hands on job might
help reduce burnout, which I think.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Is also true.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I see that if I'm constructing a roof that's part
of a house for residential use whatever, if okay, if
I'm doing drywall. I mean it's like cleaning though, Like

(03:26):
think about when you clean your house or vacuuming especially,
it's a very very fulfilling activity because when you're mowing
the lawn, when you're done, look I just did that,
I can see my work as where if I write
a thousand emails, I don't necessarily walk away feeling like
I did something, I really did something right. Yeah, you
don't feel completion because it never ends, you know, exactly,

(03:50):
like with this type of job, like our brains are
always on. Now it's not like we just get to
clock out. Like when I used to dance a labar
in Dallas. You know, I separation the housewives. They left
feeling great. You know, I made them. I made their
evening better. I could see I could see them turn
that front upside down. Yea, as they handed me at

(04:10):
twenty right.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
And then when you got home, the work was done.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
The work was done, and nobody was eating. There were
no emails from labart No, no, mainly because we didn't
have emails, but.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Their house phone occasionally, yeah, no, they did.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
They did just to tell me to come in because
the people were lighting up. They were like, where's the
master blaster? Where is he? He's like, and it's like
he can't beat here all the time. The guy's gotta
go stretch, work out, you know.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I've had this argument in my house before where I'm like,
you know, your job, you get to turn it off
when you come home. It's yes, And he's like, girls,
shut up, you just work and talk like you go
you go have fun with your friends.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
And I'm like, it's so much more than that. You
do not understand.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
But he will argue that his job is much more
stressful because it's physically draining, it's you know, time consuming,
and I'm just like, yeah, so people I don't know this.
It has been a hot button in my house before.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Same here, like first responder life. Yeah, because like he
can come home and put the ax down whatever. He
doesn't carried.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Around the house the fireman for the record, he's a fireman,
fireman actually saving lives. Maybe I just feel like, you know,
because he can turn it off, you can leave it
at work whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
But with me, it's not like that. I think a
lot of people can relate, you know.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
No, I remember in college, I get a job before
radio at a sports internship at a sports marketing firm.
And I'm a sports marketing Oh wow, I'm fancy. I'm
gonna more Khaki is in a button down shirt. I'm
gonna go to a sports marketing but I'm really going places.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, they had a side business.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
They sold bobbleheads of like sports figures in sets. And
what really I did most of the time was I
packed boxes with the six bobbleheads that came from a warehouse.
So I was essentially a manual worker. I did not
do a whole lot in the office. It was kind
of a scheme. Actually, with a scheme, I got paid
at least. But my point is, I remember the first

(06:06):
day to go go go to this warehouse. And so
I go to this warehouse and I walk in and
it's literally a warehouse as big as you can imagine,
stacked from top to bottom with boxes. Like you couldn't
walk into the warehouse. There were so many boxes. And
my job with some other people was to grab one
of each of the six Cowboys characters or whatever they were,
and put them in a box and tape it and

(06:27):
then someone else shipped them. But the reason I bring
this up is because at first it was daunting, but
after like two weeks, the warehouse was empty because we
packed them all and that was an amazing feeling. It's
like do it and you could see it, like you
could see as you did this job, like the boxes
started to disappear, and that it was really very It
felt very good. I haven't really felt that feeling in

(06:49):
radio ever. But I just I just think, like, you know,
it's you don't really have to think about it. You
know what your objective is. No one's going to email
you and tell you that you didn't you know, probably
that you didn't do it right. Maybe they will if
you really screwed it up. But I mean, for the
most part, it's if I show up and I do
my thing, then I leave and I have the satisfaction

(07:10):
of knowing that I completed the task.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
It hand Yep, Yeah, I like that. I missed that. Yes,
Like I said, it never we never feel done.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
There.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
You go, all right, well, there it is.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I'm a carpenter, finished carpenter, and I still get burnt town.
Someone said, yeah, I guess. So my husband to teamster
and delivers beer in the summer. They're working like fourteen
hour days union iron worker here. There's definitely burnt out
the end of a hard day. But you get the
satisfaction of driving on bridges and going in buildings that
you helped build. That's what I mean. Like if you

(07:42):
build a skyscraper, if you're part of that, you know,
and then when the thing's done, you like look at
the skyline, like I helped build that. Yeah. They hell
am I going to walk away with? And you know,
whenever this is over right and they get a pension