I was/am one of the originators of the union drive at my work, currently bargaining our first contract. I was burnt out from the work/toxic management/normal life things before, but have completely hit the wall. I am lucky that I'm able to take like a month long vacation from work and in so doing I'm also backing off from the union stuff a bit.

For the positive, I think my excitement and hyperfixation on learning and compiling was probably very much needed to keep momentum. I am very comfortable with everyone I was organizing with and it seemed like I had a knack for kinda getting everyone together. It kinda became a special interest/hyper fixation so I feel like that was a strength. But, I also was so obsessed and would ruminate so much I'd lose sleep thinking about it and strategizing and I think I burned myself out.

It's been extremely taxing and a complete Rollercoaster ride of exciting, invigorating, demoralizing, and frustrating. I'm AuDHD and so for the first year basically I was going HARD researching everything I could to figure out how to start a union, persuading my coworkers, networking with other unionized social service workers, compiling other contracts to study, reading strategy, acting as a de facto steward, being on the bargaining committee.....it's left me with hardly any energy for work even, much less any other kind of socializing or ability to participate in other political/mutual aid activities....I'm kinda dreading going back to it, because I feel like I've really carried the whole process and am so so tired. I'm really proud to be a part of it but I don't know that I would be able to be the main organizer to herd all the cats as the figure of speech goes, way too taxing for me