I don’t have an answer but I have had the same experience. I didn’t notice to begin with and suddenly started realising that I was feeling drained and stressed after a shorter and shorter time in a new role.
I was a contractor for a few years, and moved from development to DevOps. I think the changes helped delay or hide the issues. I got to the point that I couldn’t manage a six month contract without feeling drained and overwhelmed.
Not to say this happens to everyone but for me it turned into a bad depression that I’m still working through now and I really struggle with severe anxiety. I was fortunate that I could take some time out of work to focus on getting better. I didn’t work at all for over a year.
I joined my wife’s accountancy practice at the beginning of this year and finding ways to improve processes and introduce automation was a gradual way to find something to focus on. That lead to building a SaaS for the industry that has given me something I enjoy working on and which I feel proud to have made.
There are still lots of days where I don’t have the mental energy to work on anything challenging, how you describe feeling after a day of work. I’m having to do what I can based on what is manageable at the time.
Sorry to hear you’re in this difficult place. I can only recommend you listen to your body and try to find a way to understand and work through these feelings. For me it’s therapy but you may have other options available to you.
Open Rights Group, a UK-based organisation focussed on privacy and free speech run blocked.org.uk, does something like this for UK ISPs. They provide Raspberry Pis which people run from their networks. The devices perform regular requests to various sites to check if any are blocked.
I’m sure there are other ways to do this, including specifying a profile when you initially launch the browser, but you can enter about:profiles in the address bar to see a UI to manage the profile. One of the options is to launch that profile in a new browser.
I was a contractor for a few years, and moved from development to DevOps. I think the changes helped delay or hide the issues. I got to the point that I couldn’t manage a six month contract without feeling drained and overwhelmed.
Not to say this happens to everyone but for me it turned into a bad depression that I’m still working through now and I really struggle with severe anxiety. I was fortunate that I could take some time out of work to focus on getting better. I didn’t work at all for over a year.
I joined my wife’s accountancy practice at the beginning of this year and finding ways to improve processes and introduce automation was a gradual way to find something to focus on. That lead to building a SaaS for the industry that has given me something I enjoy working on and which I feel proud to have made.
There are still lots of days where I don’t have the mental energy to work on anything challenging, how you describe feeling after a day of work. I’m having to do what I can based on what is manageable at the time.
Sorry to hear you’re in this difficult place. I can only recommend you listen to your body and try to find a way to understand and work through these feelings. For me it’s therapy but you may have other options available to you.