How to fight burnout

如何应对职业倦怠

Today, Explained

2026-04-19

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We've been stuck in cycles of burnout for decades. Have Gen Z workers found a way out? This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Danielle Hewitt, edited by Jenny Lawton, fact-checked by Melissa Hirsch, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Jonquilyn Hill. Empty battery. Photo Illustration by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images. You can take a version of the burnout test here. If you have a question, give us a call at 1-800-618-8545 or email askvox@vox.com. Listen to Explain It to Me ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Burnout kind of comes from a place of just like numbness or not feeling and lack of motivation.

  • Tense pain, angst in my chest that then just spreads slowly across to my shoulders.

  • We're stuck in this hard place of, I don't want to give up this job, but I don't really sign joy in it anymore.

  • Jonathan Molesic landed his dream job teaching at a small Catholic college in Pennsylvania.

  • From about age 20 or so, I wanted to be a college religion or theology professor.

  • And I got it.

  • I got exactly my dream.

  • He was publishing papers, earning tenure.

  • He was really happy.

  • Until.

  • He wasn't.

  • So about eight or nine years into the career, I found it harder and harder to get out of bed in the morning.

  • I started having weird, inexplicable pains in my torso in particular.