Hi everyone,

I'm 30 years old and live in San Francisco. I work as the Senior Systems Engineer at a growing MSP and private cloud company. Lately, I've been feeling burnt out. I've been in this role for 4 years and with the company for 9 years. I feel underpaid and overworked, earning $106k a year.

For example, I was recently told I don't qualify for overtime, but I had to work from Friday night into Saturday morning to rebuild two HAproxy load balancers, reconfigure SSL pass-through, load balancing, rebuild two Windows 2019 Servers, install Federation Services, deploy SSL certificates, and reconfigure NAT and Firewall rules—all within a 10-hour window which, keep in mind, I was not being payed for. All that while also teaching two other employees who were unfamiliar with the level of complexity of the systems and configuration I typically work with.

I worked from 9 am to 5:30 pm on that Friday, returned at 8:45 pm, started at 9 pm, and finished at 7 am on Saturday morning. The other guys went home to rest, leaving me to tackle another project alone. I've been working every day for the last 3 weeks straight, often staying at the office until 10 pm. The other system administrators often expect me to handle outages or be on call, even though I've asked for more help. I’ve recently felt dreading going into the office. I hate how my coworkers flaunt their cocky attitude but when sh*t hits the fan they are quiet and don’t respond till after I’ve resolved the issue.

I'm exhausted and unsure what to do. I'm writing this at work after waking up at 6 am to be at a client location by 8 am, and I'm tired. As the title describes what would you do to tackle this feeling of “being burnt out”