I was drawn to work with you because of our similar professional backgrounds and experiences. It was really important for me to work with someone who really “got it”.
You understood personally what it was like to work in a corporate environment and the pressure/expectation to work a lot, put work before anything else, and always be in the situation of trying to manage your health so you could be on/available for work.
You seemed to understand what it was like to want to say no and could see the negative effect it had on your health and personal life, but feel pressured to work through it all anyways.
Even though I don’t wish burnout on anyone, I appreciated that you had your own burnout experience, which made me think you understood exactly what I had gone through.
Based on the way you talked about your own recovery from burnout, it gave me hope that I could heal from my own burnout experience and even prevent it for myself (and even my employees) in the future.
Emily | Project Manager