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Burned out at a big tech job and did not notice for a year

I was hitting every metric. Promotions, comp bumps, public praise. By month nine I was sleeping four hours and snapping at my partner. My therapist asked when I had last taken a weekend off. I genuinely could not remember. I took medical leave, came back, quit eight weeks later. The job had not changed. I had.
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