Burnout or Something Else?

tl;dr -- Working full-time and studying full-time for years, maybe I am burnt out. Maybe I just suck. I need some conversation with educated individuals about how their education adventure was and tips to help mindset change from hating learning, to loving it again.

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I am experiencing some form of burnout or maybe the years of my constant forward motion are finally catching up with me. I am looking for a conversation with anyone to help me change my mindset a little and give me some feedback on how their life went while working on their education.

Little background of myself, I am 30 years old and I study full-time and work full-time. I know this is the crutch of my problems, but like many others, I decided to say forget school when I first graduated high-school and enter the work field. That only proved to NOT work, due to laborious jobs and lack of skills to give the life I wanted. I decided to finally get my life together (no more drugs and partying), and left all my old friends and started to work on myself.

I first decided to study for EE, because the information behind it seemed intense and interesting to me. Not to mention the course load was tough and I think I needed to apply myself to something "hard" to get anything out of college and I loved technology. I was offered a job at Rockwell Automation where I work now as an electronics repair analyst because I was close to graduation. I worked here for about 1 year and realized ... hey ... I do not like this, I was wanting more software side of things. So I applied to another college, DePaul University, and got accepted into their Computer Science undergrad.

Been studying towards that for a few years now and working full-time. Recently I have hit this wall of just loathing to do the work. Things like have hit the brakes for me and I am in this rut that I just do not want to do this anymore. I think it might be because I am so close to graduation that I am ready to be done with it. It is like whenever I get an assignment, I know how to do it, but my mind just is like...fuck this....

I know it is a mindset thing. I know I can overcome this, but has anyone else experienced this type of mental thought process during their education adventure? Could anyone give me some pointers to help alleviate this feeling I have? ANY type of conversation is welcomed, I just need someone to talk to.

Submitted February 05, 2022 at 10:06AM by Wonderful_Biscotti69 https://ift.tt/sSo2z84