Burnout rarely manifests as a single, dramatic collapse at age 23; instead, it insinuates itself as a daily corrosion, with decisions feeling exponentially heavier, leisure losing its restorative quality, and attention slipping like sand through fingers. This makes a Saturday off seem like a brief respite in a never-ending drain. HelpGuide’s list of symptoms, when applied to the lives of early-career adults, reads less like individual pathology and more like a fingerprint of stress. Precarious part-time jobs stacked with unpaid internships, a relentless side-hustle economy, graduation milestones that pile up like deadlines, and an always-on digital life that turns small…