After nearly two decades of long-haul flights, early call times and 12-hour days on set, hairstylist Nate Rosenkranz was at the end of his rope. He hadn't fallen out of love with his craft, but he had grown weary of everything that came with it - so much so he began to question his career path. He was, simply put, burnt out.
But for Rosenkranz, burning out didn't look like it does in the movies: a law student collapses at their desk after a string of late nights, or an overworked executive has an office outburst and quits on the spot. Burnout is typically sneakier than that, says psychologist Michael Leiter, a leading researcher on the topic and co-author of the book The Burnout Challenge: Managing People's Relationships with Their Jobs, out this month.
"Burnout is a slow wearing down," says Leiter. Despite
