In December, Markíza said goodbye to a well-known face from the news. Monika Grznárová left after more than 5 years. She loves working on television and it was her dream come true. She already indicated the reason for her resignation in a post on Instagram. She gave more details in an interview for
“I like to ask questions, find out new information and be in the center of the action. And when there’s a camera and a microphone, it’s all the more interesting. But it was time to take a break. Sometimes even a fulfilled dream burns out,” she said in a post on the social network. She takes away a lot of experiences and strong emotions from television work. “I don’t leave easily, I’m not the decisive type. This is not only a job, but also a person’s identity. It’s bonds, friendships, adrenaline, excitement… But I believe that sometimes you have to leave so that you know where to go,” she added.
Grznárová found out what was happening to her thanks to podcasts, articles and statuses of people who went through it. She realized she had the same expressions. “But it wasn’t the burnout that some people describe, that they couldn’t even get out of bed. That is exactly why I tried to prevent myself from reaching such a stage by leaving my job.” she specified.
The burnout came gradually, slowly and inconspicuously. “I gradually lost my desire to work and started to feel uncomfortable. First came thoughts or psychological impulses, whether what I’m doing is what I really want,” she described. The passion she once had was fading away. “I started to get nervous and things that used to make me happy got in the way. Gradually, I started having digestive problems, although I don’t know if it’s related to that. I also went to the doctors for examinations, but they didn’t find anything. So I told myself that it’s on a psychological basis, that whenever I’m under some kind of stress, I have stomach pains,” she confided.
“Then came the days when I had to force myself to go to work every morning and remind myself that it was something I always wanted to do, my dream. I realized that it was not good,” she added. The turning point occurred after returning from a month-long PN, during which the editor was also in the hospital. According to her words, Grznárová experienced a shock at work. “I sat in the meeting and completely froze. I felt like a stranger there, I had the feeling that I didn’t belong there and wondered what I was actually doing there,“she told the Slovak weekly openly.
She did not notice or listen to colleagues who spoke to her at all. The former marquee immediately took two days off because she felt she couldn’t go to work like this. “I thought to myself, for God’s sake, what am I going to do with it. That was a strong signal for me that I had to decide what to do next,” she continued her confession. When she resigned, many people were not surprised. They saw, according to her words, that she was always angry or that she walked around as if she had no soul.
Which direction her career will take is still in the stars. “I don’t have anything planned yet. I admit that I also wanted to find a new job, but then I told myself that I wouldn’t go from one stress to another. It would again be a burden on the psyche, to get used to a new environment, so I told myself that I would take a few months to rest and sort out my thoughts, or even clear my head and forget what happened. So that I can then go to a new job with new energy,” added Grznárová.
