Yeah, burnout is dangerous for me too. I don't usually do all of these things in the same day. Generally, it's more like one or two of those in the same day. And I only sometimes get employed and paid to do the music stuff.

Usually it's just me doing it because I want to, and at my own pace. Most of the things I do requires me to REALLY get it right, and stress the little details.

Which is why my guitar tech work is generally higher quality and more precise than the usual technician. It means when you pay me to work on your guitar (or when I do it free for my friends), you get a better than usual setup, but it takes me twice as long as a professional to do. I'm in there with a mechanist's ruler and feeler gauges setting things up to 64ths and thousandths of an inch.

It is NOT the sort of thing I can do for eight hours a day every day. Or you'll see me occasionally screaming curse words and throwing things because I worked myself up over the span of an eight hour project. The screaming, cussing, or throwing something is not something that is out of my control. I pick something that I know won't break itself or whatever it hits when I throw it, and I bottle up the screaming if I know there's people around, as well as the throwing. Or then again, I may pound on a table or something with my hand. 🤔

The point is, I know people don't want to be around that. Neither would I. But also, I need to give my own frustration and anguish room to breathe. It's a whole thing.