i remember feeling like ive burnt out from work, and being confused by that. because i didn't stretch myself, and i didn't feel like ive been overworking - but there was some sort of malaise that had started to stick to me
today I felt it again, mondays do that to you, and I decided to look it up for coping. that's when I found out about boreout.
its effects are similar to burnout, however instead of excess activity it's excess boredom. in my case, im left kinda apathetic because of how tedious some tasks get, and the slow reviews + pipelines making finishing any task a major slog
turns out that also comes with significant stress since you're not working all the time, either because you're so done that pauses happen, so you start worrying about getting caught and whatever. and after some thinking I realized that this has basically been happening for years now
kinda weird how this happens in software engineering - there's boring stuff out there but since programming still requires your head, it means you're spending a lot of time reasoning out things you've done before just because the context is a bit different. which is different from like, doing the dishes - because at least there you're doing something with your hands