@dtauvdiodr it really sucked to leave eng since I'd spent several years taking the long path to even get in the door but I just don't trust any company to be responsible when it comes to staffing on-call and operations work 
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I agree though long weekends aren't enough since so much of it (for me) was tied to agency at work which isn't something you as an individual can affect (effect??)
I think it depends on the person and severity of the burnout
for me in this instance after I read a passage like "in some cases the 'cure' for burnout is to entirely change professions" and I realized it was an option to just not return to engineering a HUGE weight was lifted. Not being on overworked, understaffed, misunderstood operations teams has made my day to day loads better.
4ish months was certainly not enough (same with long weekends)
for context in the blog post I mentioned building a paper model of the Titanic during my burnout break and needed you all to see its magnificence 
it's the *official* official launch of Off-Call a podcast I've been working on this year!
we have 3 goals with every episode:
to make you genuinely laugh at least 2x
to teach you something unexpected and new about operations and on-call
to inspire you to strike up a conversation with a colleague outside your org/domain
here's a short post about why I started it and all the places you can read, listen or watch it https://okt.to/bCBuUY
