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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 spread slowly across to my shoulders.

We're stuck in this hard place of I don't want to get up this job, but I don't live in enjoying it anymore.

Jonathan Malescic landed his dream job teaching teaching out 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.

I was constantly exhausted.

I dreaded going to work.

Everyone at the college had to take theology.

Very few wanted to.

So my class was, you know, somewhat resented by the students. The college itself was under

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