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Burnout

Work is all I do now a days. Wake up Shower Take Meds Put on Work Shirt Go to Work Work all morning Work thru lunch Work all afternoon Work overtime into the evening Go home Eat dinner Sleep Repeat And no one seems to think that's odd. "That's normal," my parents say, "you're low on the totem pole, you gotta work extra to earn respect." "Oh I do that," says my brother, "you just gotta push through you'll be okay." "Ya, that's how it goes around here," say the other photographers, "getting lunch is a luxury." "I get that," the reporters say, "I'm literally exhausted all the time." This shouldn't be okay though. We're working ourselves to the bone for a job that has no problem replacing us at the drop of a hat (or just let's everyone else work more overtime to cover for management's lack of planning). We're understaffed and ov