Have you ever looked around your workplace and thought, 'Why does everyone seem so exhausted?'

Not just tired after a bad Monday—but deeply burnt out. Like they're constantly questioning their job, their career, or whether they should just quit altogether.

There's actually a term for this: doomjobbing. It's the growing trend of people panic-applying to hundreds of jobs just to escape their current one, only to discover the same frustration waiting for them somewhere else.

From a psychology perspective, we often explain this through Person-Environment Fit Theory—the idea that burnout doesn't necessarily happen because people are lazy or unmotivated. Sometimes it's the result of a mismatch between who we are and the environment we're trying to fit into.

But what if there's another way to loo ...