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    "title": "Creative Burnout and the Future",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2004/12/29/creative-burnout-and-the-future/",
    "datePublished": "2004-12-29",
    "dateModified": "2022-04-28",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "NOTE: This was written in 2006. I achieved 1.5 of the 3 items. I am working for a different company - 3 different companies counting acquisitions.I am working in the…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Creative Burnout and the Future

**NOTE:** *This was written in 2006. I achieved 1.5 of the 3 items.*

Scott Berkun has an excellent essay on [creative burnout](https://scottberkun.com/essays/33-how-to-survive-creative-burnout/).

For those of you who read this and may know me, this is a hard thing to accept. That I have gone so hatd at something for so long that it no longer excites me. Yes, there are elements of it that do motivate me, but the day-in, day-out work of taking apart companies' Web performance data, answering the same questions, and hearing the same questions is no longer fun.

I used to live for this sort of thing. I would work from 06:00 - 00:00 because there were so many cool and interesting problems to solve. Now I heat those some questions and almost roll my eyes.

I have been immersed in this field for so long that I have lost a lot of my focus. But now I am asking questions that are the foundation of my life.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately, and thinking how much better I would feel being closer to home. I accepted this move as a way to get out of one backward, dead-end job, but I often find myself questioning if it was a good move, or simply one of convenience.

Last night, I updated [my resume/CV](http://www.pierzchala.com/smp_cv.php). Tomorrow, I will transfer it to Word, Text and PDF formats. Time to hit the pavement again.