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So, I'm 24 years old, and I feel burned out on college. I've been going to college for 5.5 years now, and honestly I don't see any point in going on. I have a Bachelor in Arts and working on a Master. I still have two more years of this crap to go, and honestly, I'm not seeing a point in me going on. Yes, I will be making more money with a Master and yes, I will get more job opportunity. Honestly though, I'm tired of being the only one in my group of friends without a full time job, without a brand new car, without his own house, I got nothing. Honestly, at this point if someone offers me a full time job with a decent salary and health insurance, I'd take it.

So, has anyone else feel burned out, whether it's on college or at your job? What did you do when you did feel burned out?

So, has anyone else feel burned out, whether it's on college or at your job? What did you do when you did feel burned out?
on alot of things. Most of the time, I take a break, however the danger with that is you don't pick it back up and end up moving on. Alot of people I know took a break from college because they felt burnt out and ended up never finishing.

so just becareful of what you choose to do.

I would suggest talking with your councilor, lightening your load and try different classes. don't drop out completely.

I felt burned out last week. I was working double shifts and trying to keep my site going but all the research I have to do for my site was getting to me and by the end of the week I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I took the weekend off and just gathered my thoughts. It helped.

I retired at 59 (much sooner than I could really afford) because I was a burn-out. I was stuck in a dead-end job with the boss from Hell and, because I only have a BSc., I wasn't in a good position to find anything better.

Hang in there, a little discontent and frustration now beats ending up working for a loser later.

Yes, I will be making more money with a Master and yes, I will get more job opportunity.

There you go then. Also, what are you studying?

There you go then. Also, what are you studying?

Occupational Therapy

the education System does seem to do that.

Occupational Therapy

hmmm... could you perhaps lighten your class load and take a couple of side courses in say... various massages? would that re-kindle your interest in your collage course?

5.5 years?!/1 you should be like a mad scientist by now

stick to it I guess, its not like you got anything better to do (though if one of those super-duper laid back jobs show up for instance in a bookstore you take it and you ride it like its sea biscuit!)

So, has anyone else feel burned out, whether it's on college or at your job? What did you do when you did feel burned out?

1) all the time thats how you know your working;)

2) see friends + disappear for a week "ill" + take a holiday to the seaside (how could you tell I was English:tongue:) + totally stop paying attention and do no work so you don't have time to feel bummed out

kinda all the time. i got it real bad though by christmas in my first year at uni... couldn't take all of it any more, tried to stay on, wound up horribly depressed and ended up dropping out a year later

I'm in the same boat, minus a few years.

I started taking college classes at age 14. Now, I am a full-time manager and taking 22 credit hours this fall.

However, I have this nasty habit of taking vacations. It helps.

My final semester in this first half of the year was tough. By the end, when the exams were coming up, the only thing I could think of was to run for it and go to Townsville for a week, where a friend of mine lives.

I didn't do it, I did well in my finals and now it looks like it was worth it because a pretty prestigious company apparently likes me enough to fly me down to Sydney for an interview.

So my advice is: grab yourself some money and go to somewhere else to take a few days off, then come back and finish your masters. And the more you know exactly what you want to do with your degree, the easier it is to do well in it.

So, I'm 24 years old, and I feel burned out on college. I've been going to college for 5.5 years now, and honestly I don't see any point in going on. I have a Bachelor in Arts and working on a Master. I still have two more years of this crap to go, and honestly, I'm not seeing a point in me going on. Yes, I will be making more money with a Master and yes, I will get more job opportunity. Honestly though, I'm tired of being the only one in my group of friends without a full time job, without a brand new car, without his own house, I got nothing. Honestly, at this point if someone offers me a full time job with a decent salary and health insurance, I'd take it.

So, has anyone else feel burned out, whether it's on college or at your job? What did you do when you did feel burned out?

:) You think you feel burned out now?; go ahead & take that job! :tongue:
THEN you'll know what feeling burned out is all about, (and have the rest of your life to think ALL about it).:p
Seriously? Stay in school. ;)

I get a blog so I can talk about my life as much as I want without having to tack a question on the end.

I retired at 59 (much sooner than I could really afford) because I was a burn-out. I was stuck in a dead-end job with the boss from Hell and, because I only have a BSc., I wasn't in a good position to find anything better.

Hang in there, a little discontent and frustration now beats ending up working for a loser later.

When did you get your BSc? If you took it a normal university age then your years of experience should count a hell of a lot more than a qualification you took 35 years ago.

I feel quite burned out at the moment. My current job is escorting supply convoys from Kuwait to Iraq and back. I get up in Kuwait, ride up to Iraq (about 5-8 hours although if things go terribly wrong it can take up to 12 or even 18 hours), sleep overnight, come back and then start it all again the next day. The route I take is boring as hell, mostly just sand as far as the eye can see.

I do sometimes get days off (about every 9 or 10 days, although I went about 20 once without a day off) but on my "days off" I get bothered with stupid shit by my unit who thinks that if I don't go to the Humvee rollover trainer I'll die or something, despite the fact that I don't even ride in a Humvee. Or when they tell me at 3:00am that my driver has to be at a range at 6:00am to fire the M240B off of a Humvee, despite the fact that he's a driver, not a gunner, and our truck can't even mount an M240B. Oh, and don't mind that he was on guard from 10:00pm until 2:00am and still has to go on mission the following night and probably won't get back from the range until 5:00pm or so, which is about when we should start getting ready for mission. Silly fucking bastards.

Even more annoying is that they schedule that shit for the sort of schedule they follow, sometime between 9:00am and 5:00pm, where my convoys occur at night so I generally sleep from 6:00am until 2:00pm.

The dumb shit back at base gets so annoying I'm begging to go out on mission and stare into the sand for hours on end.

To make matters worse deployed US soldiers aren't allowed a drop of alcohol.

So yes, I'm rather burned out and I still have 5 months to go. Luckily I go on leave in October so I'll be spending 2 weeks in France getting drunk, relaxing and refusing to speak English.

When did you get your BSc? If you took it a normal university age then your years of experience should count a hell of a lot more than a qualification you took 35 years ago.

QFT, surely?

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See, now to you I'd suggest you quit. :tongue:

When did you get your BSc? If you took it a normal university age then your years of experience should count a hell of a lot more than a qualification you took 35 years ago.

I got it in '77 from the University for which I worked. There's a bit more to the story, I suppose. I got a reputation for being a whistle blower when I pointed out that the African-American woman they hired as a supervisor through Affirmative Action was being hired over the heads of several better-qualified African-American, Asian, Hispanic and Caucasian men and women, all of whom wanted the job and then participated in the resulting class action suit.

I also wouldn't sleep with my Department Chair.

Both of those both pretty much tainted my chances for advancement in the university as well as getting me faint praise in letters of recommendation.

Nope, never.

It's called "coffee" and "drugs". *nod*

When I started to get "burned out" at the end of my time at school and had to write a 5 page final essay in less than 6 hours (I had procrastinated for months), I did the right thing and got absolutely trashed. I tell you, I never wrote an essay so fast in my life.

Sure, I didn't sleep, was half dead by 8AM and ready to vomit by lunch, but my report was finished and everything went well. I even sold a few photos that day. :)

So yeah, drink more.

See, now to you I'd suggest you quit. :tongue:

Oh trust me, I would if I could, as would 99% of my unit. The problem is that if you just quit it's called "desertion" which is far more trouble than its worth. My only consolation is the $4.000 I make per month (which will be used to pay off my student loans and help fund another year I'll be spending in France) and the fact that when I'm done this time I'm completely done and they can't ever call me back for any reason.

Some of my friends have suggested that I go join the Foreign Legion while I'm on leave, but I tell them that's going straight from the frying pan into the fire :tongue:

I feel burned out all the time.

I occasionally feel burned out with my PhD, especially when I've hit a brick wall for a while. I tend to find that as long as you do actually like what you are studying, you can do a lot worse than take a holiday. Not necessarily a long break, but if you can manage to get away for a week or so and just not think about your course, at all, then you should return to it feeling energized.

lol I feel burned out all the time - I've been in uni for four years, got another three to go and work in the evenings and weekends, giving me 13hour days. Can't remember the last time I got a good nights sleep or paid a bill without a final reminder. I just want uni to be over and can't really be arsed studying for three more years!