This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max Lest.

It's a job board of the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.

Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want.

Every job has good days and bad days, but some jobs leave you exhausted every day.

What do you do if this happens to you?

Candace Hunt is here to talk about how to recognize and overcome career burnout.

She's a career strategist, a speaker, and a co-founder of the five-minute career hack.

It's a podcast and a coaching company that helps you change your career and get the salary you want.

She joins us from Austin, Texas.

Well, let's jump right into it, Candace.

What is career burnout?

How do you define that?

This is one of the topics that, unfortunately, I get to talk about a lot, but it's not my favorite topic, but certainly relevant for the times that we are in now.

But career burnout for us and how we define it when working with clients is a state or a continuous state of chronic stress.

You've been stressed out for prolonged periods of time

and your body, your mental, your emotions go into a automatic shutdown because you are doing

all of the wrong things or unsatisfied in your career. So burnout is when your body saves itself. It stops itself. It stops you from doing all the things that are causing you anxiety, depression, fatigue. It stops you and puts you in reserve mode so that you can preserve life.

So you're in a situation with a lot of stress.

It's prolonged and your body starts, starts shutting down.

What are the signs that this is happening?

What kind of symptoms do people experience when they're in career burnout?

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