So lately I've been thinking about this story I heard. It was something that happened to a friend of a friend. He spent years trying to find the right career path until he finally stumbled into teaching at age 35 and he loved it. He taught special needs students

and he loved it so much that he poured all of his time and energy into it as

the school kept ramping up his workload, asking him to teach

more subjects and tests on more materials, he kept saying yes, even when it meant his work was

taking over his entire life. After all, this was his dream job.

But eventually the pressure got to be too much and the environment became toxic.

One day he did something unexpected even to him.

He walked out of his classroom and he never came back.

To put it simply, he burned out. He had been teaching for 28 years.

I'm haunted by the

I'm haunted by this story because it feels a little too familiar.

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Every night before I go to bed, I reach from my legal pad and I start writing down a list of things I need to do for the show tomorrow.

I have a call at 12 and a meeting at 2.

When my alarm goes off at 4.45 a.m. I know I'm a bit of an early bird. I

intuitively grab my lists and bring it into the bathroom with me.

It sits next to me as I brush my teeth.

millennial is the last thing I think about before I go to bed and the first thing I think about in the morning.

People often ask me, how does it feel to do a show about your personal life?

And I can tell you, it's not easy.

Because my work is about my personal life,

it's hard to detach work from my personal life.

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