A conflicted teacher

  "You can do anything, but not everything"  'Burnouts aren't real' is what a colleague told me yesterday during out team dinner to celebrate the start of springbreak. As you might imagine I, as someone only just recovering from a burnout, took offense and while I didn't engage in further conversation (since I was quite tempted to bash his face in with my empty pasta bowl) his words and scoff lingered in my mind.  I think the worst part is that only two years ago I would have thought (though definitely not said aloud) the same. Not because I doubted the existence of burnouts but because for a very long time I truly believed it would never happen to me. But then it did. And it sucked. A lot.  When I just started working in education at the ripe age of 23, I internally sighed and scoffed at older teachers who deemed every little thing to be too much.Teachers that wouldn't go on schooltrips because they wouldn't get compensated for all the hours, teachers