Hi! Posting on a throwaway account because of the admissions in this post, this is a post about my burnout: I moved to SF to dive into rails and eventually startups.
I've actually done decent for myself; but not good enough that I can take a few months off to recover from my mental exhaustion. In fact, I'm currently founder at a startup that's about to make it big.
On the flip side; I was once a passionate person, created passionately and created often in the arts. I'm that type of person who's passions for everything led me close to failure, because I could never focus on one thing.
So then I made choice: I moved to SF, zero'd in on my tech skills, got hired as a lead at a killer company, did well and left to start a startup. Now in my 30s, I am truly great at something: tech.
The problem is that I'm bordering on clinical depression (so my doctor tells me). The reason is that I'm hyper-focused on tech: I'm glued to my iPhone, read HN all day, read books on programming, hack on nights and weekends. I don'