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How do you deal with burnout and stress from being overworked?

  • 03-12-2025 01:24PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5


    The union are useless.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,068 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    You may have to be a bit more specific, caller.

    Its not up to your Union to manage your own time management, resilience strategy and work/life balance. Its your responsibility alone.

    If those strategies and these effects cannot be reconciled, then quit. In my experience, no job on this Earth is worth ruining your health and your rightful expectation of peace and control in your own life for.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 K teaches


    I'm a teacher and often find our hours and workload simply too much.

    There's days I don't finish until 5 in the evening and Fridays when lessons are supposed to finish at 2 I often don't even get to finish at 2. Especially if I have to supervise detention.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,368 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Not to ignite a whole "Teachers vs everyone else" debate, but I'm not sure you're going to get a whole lot of sympathy from people because you "only" finish work at 5pm the odd day. My work hours are 9 to 5.30 (was 8.30 to 5.30 in my last place) and I often end up working far later than that - I didn't log off til after 10pm last night, for example, and we don't get paid overtime. It's the nature of my industry and I'm happy to do it, for now. If that ever changes then I'll look to move on. You may end up having to do the same thing, although I'd counsel you to be very aware of the kind of hours you'll end up doing 5 days a week (every week, all year round) should you decide to leave the profession.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 K teaches


    Apples and oranges.

    As you said, you chose to work til 10.

    I'm being forced to work till 5 and late on Fridays. I also have to do preparation during the Christmas holidays. Am I not entitled to a break?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭DBK1


    No one in this world can force you to work at something you don’t want to work at. If you’re not happy in your role or feel you are being over worked then hand in your notice, quit your job and take up a job in another role that will suit you or the hours you’re willing to work better. It’s that simple really.

    But as @Dial Hard alluded to above, be careful what you wish for. There’s not too many jobs out there where you only have to work until 5 an odd few days, 5 would be a fairly standard quitting time for a lot of office based roles as well as construction and plenty of other sectors. Generally there’s no early Friday finish in the majority of jobs either so I’d advise you to do some research into the job you’d like to change too and what the financial difference would be relative to where you are now if you only want to work half days.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭purplefields


    I created a new ChatGPT project for my stress/work overload and it came up with an excellent plan to combat it, which I am currently undertaking.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 K teaches


    If only gpt could mitigate the stress of teaching 😩



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    I think K has had enought eat, if you take my meaning?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,142 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Seems like a nonsense thread just to have a dig at teachers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,368 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I didn't choose to work til after 10 last night, a client issue required it. Yes, you could argue that I chose my industry, but so did you, presumably. I don't doubt that teaching is a stressful job but I suspect if you aggregate out the hours you work over the course of a full year, you're still coming in waaaaaaaaay under the average for most other professions, many of which are just as stressful in their own way.

    It's very possible you've just fallen out of love with your job - it happens in every sector, and when that happens it becomes very difficult to overlook stuff that you may not even have really noticed previously. All I can say is if that is the case, you need to start thinking about what the next chapter is.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,846 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Just learn to manage your time effectively.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭pjdarcy


    Get the kids to grade each others homework. That's what the lazy or hungover teachers in my school used to do.



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