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I’m here to tell you that there is such thing as blogger burnout! I have experienced it recently after my trip to Serbia, closely followed by Iceland. So what is blogger burnout? What can we do about it?
Why do Bloggers Burnout?
Indeed, being a travel blogger is an amazing profession — you get to see the world and document it. But, many people fail to realise that we are not going on a package holiday 5 times a year! When you go on a FAM trip, particularly a sponsored one, there is a lot of pressure to churn out content, and very little time to write it. Often this ends up stacking up for when you are back at your home or digital nomad city base. Or it just piles up while you are on the road…until you just go under!
There’s no-one telling you when to work — it’s not like you clock on and off as many people do in a regular job. And the thing about being a blogger is that you write when you are inspired. This could be at 7am on a balcony for breakfast. Or it could be at midnight after a long day of sightseeing.
The instantaneous nature of social media can also contribute to blogger burnout. With so much pressure on social media to show things in real time and document ‘the now’ as well as responding to all of the instant messages, you soon forget to make that all…
