How Farming Saved Me From Developer Burnout

Burnout. According to some studies, 81% of developers have experienced it in recent years. While there’s no clear remedy for burnout, Anselm Hannemann has found one way to combat it… by planting vegetables.
This mini-doc follows Anselm as he mixes development with being in nature. This is probably our most relaxing doc yet, so grab a tea and get cosy!
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[@Honeypotio]

As always, thanks for watching (and thanks to Anselm for sharing his story)! If you have any advice for people experiencing stress or burnout, let’s pay it forward and share below.

[@alishapayne4121]

Meditation has really helped me! Can recommend some of those apps if you're just getting started.

[@idabechtle9296]

Nature is a great way to disconnect! And honest conversations with your workplace/manager to be able to "turn the ship around" in time.

[@TechAtScale]

I took two years out from the tech scene, I thought I would be outdated, I thought nobody would hire me again, and I'd need to spend a year catching up. Reality, nothing had really changed that much. Sure, a new framework to learn but that isn't anything new and everyone is learning a new framework at some point. I thought I would lose syntax or forget critical information, but within a month I'd say I was 95% back to where I was before taking the break. Don't let the internal fear get to you! Take the time, enjoy life and find a way to do this sustainable.

[@Honeypotio]

This is great advice! 💯

[@red1io]

I love what you wrote

[@rafae5902]

Thanks for this. I'm without working for almost 10 months now, after working for almost 10 years. I'll start learning gamedev with Unity... hopefully that will help me find my passion for working with code again, be it as a gamedev or webdev.

[@TechAtScale]

@@rafae5902 I've been doing a bunch of Godot. Highly recommend checking out.

[@ayushsuman_]

This doc brings out the reality of where we are heading ourselves into. The idea of metaverse, social media and staying connected to the world is cool but human brain is not built to handle such a high bandwidth of information flow.

[@filippolivorno155]

Life is strange...I somehow followed the opposite path of Anselm: I was working full time as a Mountain Guide, being in plain contact with nature and connected with myself, up and down the mountains, countless climbs in the Alps and around the world. But, at one point, my kids came and, suddenly, I was not feeling good with myself anymore, I started to see the risks, I was missing them too much when I was staying days away from home....it was not the perfect job anymore. So I decided to teach myself coding and started working as a web developer and eventually founded a company. But I do still need mountains to be part of my life. I think having a balance is the key to a happy life but, most importantly, as Anselms says at the end of the video, if you feel unhappy, just listen to yourself and make that change.

[@isaacelinamspielberg5752]

Burn out turns your passion to a burden. This the best video for devs and coders. Thanks. Amazing family

[@Honeypotio]

Thanks for watching, Isaac!

[@masumonweb1171]

We are loosing balance everywhere. If tech can't bring happiness, reduced work hours, more time with family, more time to enjoy what we love, then how are we better than the old days. We are overworking everywhere. Leisure is a luxury now. Thanks a lot Honeypot for such a great story. I too moved out of city this year and loving my village walks every morning. I am not going back to city again. Hope I can survive with freelancing and will start a farm soon.

[@seiya6111]

A nice video!! I'm a web developer in Japan. Last year, my wife and I left Tokyo, where I had lived for about 10 years, to live in the countryside. I wanted to change my way of life like Anselm. We live in northern Japan now. For some reason, not many people leave Tokyo to live in the countryside, but it was a good decision for us. I was encouraged by this video. Thanks so much for sharing your great journey, Anselm. You are so cool! ARIGATO!!

[@alishapayne4121]

Feelings of burnout can really go under the radar, especially during these covid times.. somehow being unmotivated has become part of my everyday existence - thanks for reminding me of the importance of staying balanced, Honeypot and Anselm! Also, what a beautiful family, the wife wiping away a little tear made me all emotional

[@matthewlivingston8177]

I took almost 5 years off from tech, started an organic smallholding, and now been back 6 months as remote software engineer on 4 days/week managing the farm in the other hours - it took a little while to get back into it but not as much as I thought, and really enjoying the balance so far as Anselm has done!

[@Honeypotio]

That's super cool! Keep it up 💪

[@filip_kastl_cz]

Ok, so there are missing few things in my list: 1) be a front-end / full-stack developer for 15+ years - passed 2) have several burnouts and got crazy - passed 3) become a gardener - in progress - last month I've replanted my home plants for the first time in my life 4) move out to off-grid/off-city - sometime in future Anyway, great video and great inspiration! It's very interesting and great, what topics honyepot brings to the social bubble of the devs,... from 'how to program on micro-dosed LSD' to 'how to become less stressed in/with the nature'. Totally love it!

[@Honeypotio]

We’re so glad to hear that! 🤗 Good luck with your own farming project.

[@moeman2481]

been through similar experience, got all of the burn out symptoms he mentioned and it hit so hard that I had to quite my job , even after quitting my job I had to let 3 months goes by without doing anything to start healing!!! My advice to junior/new developers is to not ever overwork, make sure to have enough sleep, food, and exercise.

[@Honeypotio]

Thanks for sharing! Good advice for everybody tbh 💯

[@lukasluftlaufer1093]

I can totally relate. My small garden on my balcony helps tremendously to re-focus my brain from coding.

[@susubiskut]

back to nature.

[@imikepena]

I Am web developer from Mexico, in the actuality for the pandemy I start the home office and the farming saved me of stressed, I have a chayote orchard, and this activity is relaxing and help me to not block me

[@PontoLive]

Cinematography is off the charts

[@Honeypotio]

🙏

[@AntonyNorthcutt]

Oh my word this was so beautiful. What a wonderful family and such a beautifully filmed piece. Thank you for making this.

[@Honeypotio]

Thank you, Antony, glad you liked it! ❤

[@ranand12345]

As someone who is in the information technology sector and someone who had kept a vegetable garden in the past can do relate to this - thank you honeypot for making this (this is the need of the hour) and other high quality documentaries.

[@Honeypotio]

So glad you enjoyed this, Anand!

[@andreatognoli2577]

Well done Honeypot! Inspiring contents as always.

[@sujinleeme]

This channel is like Netflix for IT people.

[@Aaronmoreno]

One of my favorites so far. So relevant to where I am at and very encouraging

[@headlights-go-up]

Awesome stuff, as always. Gardening/farming is a wonderful way to stay in touch with the earth.

[@niccodev7704]

That's soooo relatable 😥 Awesome topic and documentary 👏

[@AayushRaj-fn4vt]

We need this kind of videos. Please do some more like this.

[@abhijeetghosh27]

Loved this episode. Thanks for creating and sharing ! 😊👍

[@notrab]

This is so powerful. Great documentary.

[@alexandrosharisis6982]

Wow, thanks for sharing! Spot on with the description of the toll it has on us being connected all the time and people firing questions non-stop. That would never happen in a traditional office setting where people needed to queue behind your desk to ask those questions and directly see how overwhelmed you are.

[@shafiq_ramli]

Mental health is paramount. Great video!

[@seb-ssabes]

Not bad of a blend at all. Tech and Nature? Awesome.

[@Honeypotio]

You look like a pretty good blend yourself. 😉

[@TodorescuProgramming]

thank you for making me cry... can't wait for spring/summer since I live in a small 7000 inhabitants village, moved here after 4-5 years of living in big cities, with my wife, animals it's so refreshing

[@Honeypotio]

Wow cool! What made you move there?

[@TodorescuProgramming]

@@Honeypotio my wife mostly, loved spending time with her ( plus I tried some startups and was pretty broke and burnedout at the time ) ... eventually I grew to love it here, the country side

[@Honeypotio]

Sounds pretty amazing tbh!

[@marcthiele]

Nice one. Good to see Anselm is doing well. Oh … and nice t-shirt during the interview ;)

[@lukasjakob2969]

Love it. Thanks for sharing. Very important.

[@wilbertmuza1757]

I have experienced this and I couldn't figure out what was happening with my life. I constantly told my wife that I want to retire from coding but she knew that is my passion up and until I decided to move and stay on the farm. Since then I started gaining weight that I lost due to stress and started understanding all the conceipts that i was forgetting during the burnout period. I am happy that this is shared and its exactly what I am doing now.

[@Honeypotio]

Glad to hear you feel better now!

[@AlexanderArzner]

Anselm, ich freue mich auf dich! Tolle Familie, tolle Frau. Das war sehr interessant. Danke, dass du deine Erfahrung mitgeteilt hast. Ich wünsche euch viel Spaß und Glück!

[@yashsharma5172]

I absolutely love this channel, being a software developer I am really amazed to see this channel providing everything for a developer starting from tech information to day in life. Currently, I am also facing this issue of "brunout" and was finding a way out of this and watching this video made me realize its absolutely normal to go through this.Huge shoutout t to Honeypot team

[@Honeypotio]

Thank you, Yash! We are so glad to hear that you value our channel and that we can help you in small ways. 💛

[@kafuialordo1193]

I try to go on short trips - staying 1-2 weeks on a max, and i repeat that across different cities as long as i can until i get back home with a renewed energy.

[@mortezarajabi3737]

Thanks Honeypot! Happy to know that I'm not alone with these feelings and thoughts everyday.

[@Honeypotio]

❤️

[@ChrisMooreOfficial]

This was a wonderful and truly inspiring video. Thanks to all involved! Nature, for the win! 🌳🌄

[@Honeypotio]

Hell yeah, nature for the win!!

[@iliameshvildishvili]

Great content! Would be also very interesting to make video on Shopware. Nice story behind hard work

[@saibotblack]

Great journey! 🙂

[@alex_ali]

I really liked this idea 💡

[@oskarristolang]

What an inspirational story. Appreciate it.

[@Honeypotio]

Thanks for watching 🤗

[@nordine]

Awesome content!, I believe the Agile methodology that we have now put a lot of pressure on employees, We have to ship fast WTF!, so we can enter the feedback loop quickly, just to fix bugs what we already introduced in the first place because we ship fast.

[@TheRanguna]

Bugs are gonna be there either way, it's mostly about achieving a balance

[@XYZ-oi7jj]

I worked as a DevOps & let me tell you, DevOps is a 24×7 loop, way worse than Agile!

[@TheRanguna]

@@XYZ-oi7jj hummm... I work in a devops team following an agile way of working. Not really sure how you can compare both of those concepts when they describe almost completely different things.

[@ramyres110]

Nice, thanks for share this history! As a software engineer, to recharge I do DIY projects!

[@deadnight700]

I am really impressed by you, Unfortunately I come from that India where there is no electricity, network connection where I can proceed with my software development along with farming.

[@stevecornelison8754]

It seems you and I are on the same path - have you ever looked into raising chickens? I started my flock this year and the girls have been an amazing addition to my micro-farm I wish you the best, brother

[@bartek...]

Jerremy Clarkson choosen similar path. Dirt and manure is more tempting than standing desk in air conditioned office ^.^

[@bryangranado6581]

Really, this things they're necessary

[@xilipiz]

Now make a full farm illustration with just css

[@webunlocked]

Thats what I plan to do as well. Have a side hustle far from developing. I am gonna open a small bakery (sourdough bakery) ^_^

[@user-we3kd4yd1o]

Great. I go fishing right now 😀

[@ballerina3483]

Thank God I am not the only one feeling like that after 5 years working as a developer I am slowly loosing my mind I bought a guitar last year have played it only 2 times that's it this is not life

[@nielsdominguez991]

he is a PHP developer, normal

[@mcknasma2239]

What do he read, the docs? I want to know what kind of things should we read to stay updated @Honeypot

[@ransomware9086]

I did freelance for over 12 years in the front-end section of IT. So I'm a programmer sounds like I am a dentist for 12 years, so I'm a doctor :')

[@pharder1234]

shit i go to school for CS and im so burnt out that ima just keep gardening and stop coding altogether 😂

[@MaQuGo119]

Howe come blue collar job people don't get burnout?

[@kokngonose]

you can see in his face when saying i switch career partially he is very happy pretty sure if money not an issue he want to switch it entirely coz i also think the same thing lol coz of this ai stuff lil by lil i think programmer job is i dont know