Poll: Have you suffered from burnout this year?
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Jun 26, 2025

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Португалија
Local time: 09:09
Член (2007)
англиски на португалски
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No! Jun 26, 2025

Here we have an extremely ironic question in a year when work has been scarce or at least extremely irregular (as it happens, I am currently swamped with work). Since burnout can be linked to depression, perhaps that is the reason behind the question, and it is referring to burnout due to lack of work...

Dan Lucas
Claudio Machado Junior
Cecília Alves
Philip Lees
Daryo
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise  Identity Verified
Белгија
Local time: 10:09
Член (2020)
француски на холандски
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Not so ironic? Jun 26, 2025

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

Here we have an extremely ironic question in a year when work has been scarce or at least extremely irregular


It might be less ironic than you think. People working for ridiculous rates might work themselves to death to earn enough.


Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Dan Lucas
Claudio Machado Junior
Zea_Mays
Philip Lees
Daryo
Maria Laura Curzi
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Португалија
Local time: 09:09
англиски на португалски
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Yes, today... for a moment 😂 Jun 26, 2025

"Hello

Greetings for the day!

We are looking for Asian Creole French to English translation for 1 Page document.

Most of the document is in French but some parts of the document is in creole.

Kindly let us know your availability and rates.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,"

I received this email a few minutes ago from a company in the UK. I didn't even bother to reply.
I would also li
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"Hello

Greetings for the day!

We are looking for Asian Creole French to English translation for 1 Page document.

Most of the document is in French but some parts of the document is in creole.

Kindly let us know your availability and rates.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,"

I received this email a few minutes ago from a company in the UK. I didn't even bother to reply.
I would also like to know what " Asian Creole French" is...
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Claudio Machado Junior
Philip Lees
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Constanze Deus-Konrad
Constanze Deus-Konrad  Identity Verified
Германија
Local time: 10:09
француски на германски
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not sure Jun 26, 2025

Don't know if it's called burnout, but suffering from very bad order situation and other personal reasons which are draining my energy

Claudio Machado Junior
Christian Witt
Cecília Alves
 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Германија
Local time: 10:09
Член (2009)
англиски на германски
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No Jun 26, 2025

There's no job related burnout in sight.

 
Mario Chávez
Mario Chávez
Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 04:09
англиски на шпански
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Burnout and other American English words Jun 26, 2025

Some people might consider the poll question a bit intrusive. Maybe it is so to wake us up.

According to the WHO:
“Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions:

- feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion;
- increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism
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Some people might consider the poll question a bit intrusive. Maybe it is so to wake us up.

According to the WHO:
“Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions:

- feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion;
- increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and
- reduced professional efficacy.

The WHO entry continues:
“Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.”

Burn-out was also included in ICD-10, in the same category as in ICD-11, but the definition is now more detailed.

The World Health Organization is about to embark on the development of evidence-based guidelines on mental well-being in the workplace.”

To me, this exhaustion is not related to depression, clinical or otherwise.
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Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Oscar Núñez Alfaro  Identity Verified
Костарика
Local time: 02:09
англиски на шпански
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No, fortunately! Jun 26, 2025

I think that it was because I am more aware of the things that make me feel stressed and anxious. One of them, working really hard to get some money.

I try to study and meeting clients that can pay my rates for my quality services without working so hard to get some money.

Another reason, I love what I am doing, I am a language teacher by heart with many creative ideas to give my classes.

Fortunately, my students believe in my methodology because they not
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I think that it was because I am more aware of the things that make me feel stressed and anxious. One of them, working really hard to get some money.

I try to study and meeting clients that can pay my rates for my quality services without working so hard to get some money.

Another reason, I love what I am doing, I am a language teacher by heart with many creative ideas to give my classes.

Fortunately, my students believe in my methodology because they notice that I am really passionate of languages.
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WolfgangS
WolfgangS
Франција
Local time: 10:09
англиски на германски
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No, Jun 27, 2025

not yet

 


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