You're experiencing burnout in your data architecture career. How can you rekindle your passion?

Try to build whole system in phases and always start with the modules whose requirements, goals and expectations are clear i.e. above 90%. Resource planning is very important is data projects. Be realistic and always have few standbys on bench.

The key to event prevent this is to check these sighns and if you see they are comming, and work that you have loved is now painful, you should immidetly find someone who you believe and who you can talk to. It's great if its your colleague, boss, coach, mentor or someone who can see your situation from other perception. Even this talking can help you to release intial stress and give you power to overcome your challanges.

- Lack of interest and primary focus of learning is thin. - Self interest/driven learning. - fatigue can be one of the reason after pandemic. - lot of businesses opportunities on a different landscapes.

I would add train personal resilience and not to take things personaly is also very important prevention. To be able to build your resilience, know yourself, your best strenghts and also your weekneses. Ask for feedback anytime. And also understand that everyone have weeknesses it is normal and natural so don't be harsh to yourself. Be kind to you as you are kind to other people.

Lets start with the basics, what you have loved about your work start with that, is it still working? If not, wat are the things that brig you joy and smile, or drag you to 3 hours working streak without any distraction? Can you recall any of these? Maybe you will find that coding is not it anymore, but see people that are happy that they wrote they own code with your supervision is it. Sometimes even small change can mean a lot. Maybe you are happy if you finish you architecture diagram and people around understand it and appriate it. Maybe playing with new reporting tool will help you. You can try different things for sure, just try to recall first maybe you already know what is it.

Try to get people around you who are supportive if needed. People who trust you by default. People who will see your value. It can be just better leader, or it can be also team full of junior colleagues who will admire your experience. But look for kind people around and try to limit manipulative and harsh supervisors as much as possible at least util you fully recover.

It is hard, when you do some very focused work the main purpose of it can be very fuzzy. Open you eyes, look from other people perspective. Where your work fits, where it is required, who using it, does it help anyone? Find the purpose that is valuable to you. You can learn from american story when you can ask cleaner in NASA what he is doing and he will tell you "I am helping people get on the Moon". Or remember story of Steve Jobs who was persuating his colleagues why they have to improve loading of iOS system on Mac computers from 10 sec down. If you count number of users multiply that number of boot time and every day running, over year that looong time, divie it by averavge and you will find how many lifes you have just saved.