--There is one warning I would place on this, and that is to know your limits and avoid spreading yourself too thin. Learn to say “no” when you need to, because if you try to be everything to everybody, you may be setting yourself up for eventual burnout.--

There's another warning. There's a difference between wanting your support and wanting your help.

Ask any female.You can't solve everybody's problem, nor do they always want you to.

Insanely useful; I luv it TN! What a concept.

I've got the insane bit totally covered, but I am still working on the useful bit.

I've got the insane bit totally covered

OMG me too!!!! I have to dig hard, but I know I just gotta be useful for something

"I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity" quote from Edgar Allen Poe

I suffer from burnout.

I suffer from burnout

Ditto and I have it BAD

Also, being so useful sometimes results in your immediate supervisor not recommending you for higher paying openings in your company, because he wants you around. Then, after you've trained everyone in your department to do what you know how to do, getting laid off at the first budget cut, because you're better paid than the others and they know how to do what you do anyway!

I know I something to say about "burnout" but I can't friggin' remember what it is...something to do with rejuvenation thru spiritual practice....or communing with nature and ignoring the political circus...OH< YEAH! turn off the TV and take a walk in the woods or on the beach! You aren't useful to anyone, including yourself, if you are burned out. I speak from experience...It took me a year as a beach bum in Hawaii to get over the 2 years I spent working in a mental hospital, despite of the success I had teaching the deaf-blind. The Institutional mindfuck was incredible, and it was during the height (low?) of Vietnam killing that I had refused to join...so...anyway, I got over it.