A woman: “I climbed the career ladder and got my dream job at 30 – then I hit burnout.”

Our thanks to cp for this. He writes this:

“And after women make their assisted, quota-placement way up the ranks, they find that they can’t cope! Note that there are no men whingeing their way through today’s BBC article.”

Jo, the main focus of the article, said this:

“Now I’m a woman on a mission to convince others [J4MB: She means women.] to work less, because I spent 10 years not doing that, and it nearly broke me.”

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3 thoughts on “A woman: “I climbed the career ladder and got my dream job at 30 – then I hit burnout.”

  1. As quoted by CP “After three generations, these societies become economically inert,” On the topic of feminisation. The UK’s productivity has flatlined for two decades. Here is one of the reasons. For all the many “adjustments”, flexible working, WFH, rights to leave for children, relatives, work life balance and so on are not adding to our productivity. Certainly in this country you’d think we’d notice that our world dominance was because we were “the workshop of the world”. And could trounce the Chinese empire by turning up in a load of steam battleships when they fielded wooden sailing “junks”. For example. Now maybe there is wisdom in some folk changing jobs. But isn’t interesting that “Jo” has to evangelise working less. This is the problem not only is it individuals who might make their own choices but these become enshrined as “rights” and in order to not to upset anyone we have to pretend that this somehow fine for less work to be done. Of course the truth is, from the Time Use surveys used by economists, that we have steadily worked (paid work and unpaid work)less over the decades and certainly don’t work harder than previous generations.

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  2. It is a notable point, used in Spanish anti-feminist campaigning, that of the articles on burnout, or on suddenly wanting to put social life over work life, or of emptiness after a career life, almost every single one of them is from a woman.

    Men, meanwhile, complain of not being allowed a foot on the ladder because of DEI initiatives and other ‘positive’ discrimination against men.

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