Burnout: Often a Result of Job/Worker Mismatch: "A second kind of burnout occurs when a person works at the same job for many years and following a period of modest progress or improvement settles into a very prolonged period where there appear to be no additional avenues or opportunities for progress. An example might be a job at the lower levels of management that someone has had for the past 10 or more years. There might have been a little progress in the first couple of years, but the worker now feels that opportunities to move up the management ladder are definitely not available to him/her. Additionally, the work being done has become routine, highly predictable, and unexciting. This, together with the limited opportunities for advancement, tends to create feelings of hopelessness and stagnation."