Started a new project and I’m completely unengaged due to the amount of stuff to learn but not having enough tangible documentation for context. Is this a symptom of burnout?

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No. This is consuting 101. Learn to manage ambiguity, develop growth mindset and ask questions to drive things forward

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💯 step up to the plate and figure it out

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Seems more like symptoms of being overwhelmed and kinda lost not knowing where to start.

Try to find little steps you can take at a time, build up momentum and feel like you’re making progress, then you’d start feeling more engaged and excited with progress that you’re making.

Hopefully that’s the case and this helps.

Meet with less senior folks that could take you through a day in their shoes and understand how work similar was done

Sounds like it could be one of two things:
1) the project work is simply uninteresting to you and the project itself is a poor alignment with your interests/ skillets
2) the project aligns well with what your learning objectives are, but the project needs are perhaps a little out of reach from where you currently are


For 1) I recommend reaching out to your Career counselor, making sure they know of the poor alignment and see if maybe you can be taken off the project or have your scope realigned.
For 2) I recommend you use all the lifelines of support you can find, speak with your manager, make sure that they know you're still in a learning phase

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