I’m still haunted by the coincidence that I was fired days after finally admitting to my mentor that I was feeling burned out for months.

I say “coincidence” because other stuff was happening at the same time and my mentor wasn’t in the same office as me or my supervisor. But I remember, at the end of one week, he told me to reach out to my supervisor and talk to them about maybe getting some extra time off to reset, and, the start of the next week, I got called into the office and let go.