Work burnout is too frequent, and clashes with the Workaholic lifestyle in SE

I agree with @MatsuyoRific and want to add my voice to the dialogue about this conflict . I recently bought Snowy Escape, and I am enjoying exploring it very much, especially Lifestyles, which I didn't know I needed in my gameplay until I got them. I don't own Growing Together, but I know, if I did, I would not be appreciating a conflict between the workaholic lifestyle and burnout.

I'd like to point out that workaholics being simultaneously stressed from being overworked and from not working enough has been an ongoing problem since before Growing Together, so I'm sad but not surprised that the new burnout also ignores the lifestyle.

When I have my mods in, I have a bunch of lifestyle fixes. I'll have to check them for updates to take burnout into account.

They changed this in the may 30th patch 

I play with Lifestyles off because it caused too many negative moodlets, just like Wants and Fears. It's such a shame because I like the ideas in theory but it's all those little blue moodlets that spoil the game for me.

But, there's no escaping Burnout! My Ambitious Sims can't Work Hard once without it making them Dazed. It needs attention desperately. I'm having to select Work Hard for about half the work day and then quickly switch it to Socialize with Co-workers (which would be a sackable offence IRL and I know that because I was a Personnel Officer). It's taking much longer to get promoted trying to avoid it. So it's also conflicting with the Ambitious trait.

I think Burnout should either have a Reward Points remedy (because Moodlet Solvers don't always help), be toggled on/off, or only occur after say 3 days of working hard. The same applies to my Sim children who study hard in school.

It's not too realistic either unfortunately. I had a few really stressful times in my government career, especially meeting government or EU deadlines or handling staffing, payroll or budget. I was never once Dazed, just needed to relax at home when I finally got there.

The Dazed look may or may not have put in an appearance after an office night out, cough 🤫.

Edit: I forgot to mention I'm also getting burnout while Sims are painting. 

I keep getting dazed when my Sim is working on the Vet Station making Treats. It never used to do this until Growing Together.

Kind regards James.

A toggle would be good but I think the feature itself is just too sensitive. I'm finding that if I work on work-related skills on non-weekend off-hours or forget to turn off "work hard" for even a day, I'll get the dazed moodlet (which I've discovered I have only just enough time to get rid of by the next workday, assuming I hardcore focus on opposite skills). Daily task? Forget it. So my choices are to do the opposite of what would get my Sim promoted, take a vacation day literally every week, or suffer from the burnout.

I feel like there's already enough in the game to discourage me from playing rabbithole careers, and I didn't need yet another thing to make me avoid it.

I suppose I could set up my holiday calendar to give my Sims a day off work in the middle of each week, but that seems excessive too.

I have also experienced this in my game and gave up on playing that life style because I play the game for fun not to get stressed out with my Sim. LOL Clicked Me Too.

This system is annoying and need some serious tweaking. It shouldn’t be that my sims get always the first state in 1 week. I had the case which my sims had 3 days free but because I don’t do any *inspired* these 3 days he got the mental fog buff after the FIRST day of work. Seriously why need the team always to punish people whit such mechanics?

You could add a Reward trait which people could purchase for 3000 as example: Grinding -> This Sims love to focus one simply thing, they never got Burn-Outs!* so people which want it don’t get punish and I got not forced in such mechanics.

I know we have yoga for these things but maybe... only maybe I don’t want that all my 200 played sims have the wellness skin? Many of them are now cloud gazing addicted just because of this! If I want to enjoy my way to playing, I need a mod again or just simple don’t give my sims any job. It happens way to often if a sim has a job. Mods should enchant the gameplay not the way to remove annoying mechanics, this happens way to often since a while in sims4.