I hear so many people talking about being burntout. There are weeks when I feel the same... Good article from the New Yorker which goes into some depth.
http://nymag.com/news/features/24757/
From page 3:
From page 4:Pines found that the most-burned-out people were nurses working in children’s burn units—“It was too painful”—and the least were serial entrepreneurs, those metabolic wonders creating companies as if they were baking cakes.
Think I'm burntout on reading that article..As Schaufeli, the Dutch researcher, notes, one of the strongest predictors of burnout isn’t just work overload but “work-home interference”—a sociologist’s way of saying we’re receiving phone calls from Tokyo during dinner and replying to clients on our BlackBerrys while making our children brush their teeth.