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You need to check out this post by Pinny Cohen about why people get burned out on their jobs.
An excerpt:
People are Special
One of the things that sets humans aside from other animals is our unrelenting interest in novelty, and learning. Indeed, one of the best ways to keep our brains sharp is by challenging it [...]

I have found that there are roughly two types of bosses in the world:

This boss is totally cool with you mentally checking out of work on Fridays and before major holidays. Heck, he or she may be doing the same.
This boss is not pleased with people slacking off before the weekend and/or holidays.

Guess which one [...]

Your boss probably doesn’t care about “Black Friday” (the day after Thanksgiving where retailers typically put on a barrage of sales). Unless you work in a handful of positions, you probably had it off and it probably gave you a good reason to come in this morning. After all, your credit card won’t pay for [...]

Everybody wants to be passionate about what they do but they have a hard time finding what they are passionate about in the first place. It seems that all sorts of people are having a hard time figuring out exactly what they want to do in life. Even people that shouldn’t know what they are [...]

Forget about Gen Y/Millennials for a second, how about retaining the older generations?
Unfortunately, we can’t all work for a dot com where younger workers and older workers can enter the industry on essentially the same footing. There are many industries where the wealth of experience an older person brings to a company actually does make [...]