What is *your* recurring job-related anxiety dream?

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We've been talking about dreams lately, about the nightmares
most of us have about some aspect of our job. These dreams
tend to be recurring.

For example, even though I have not turned in a lunch order in over 20 years,
my anxiety dreams still harken back to my days working in food service --
no pencil, no clean water glasses, broken glass in the water glasses,
can't find my own eyeglasses, a gazillion people all arriving at once and
all of the above happening.... you know the feeling.  I still have these dreams,
and I really don't have any other similar anxiety dreams.

Funny that I taught and practiced home-health for as many years, but have never
had nightmares about either one, even when I was doing them.

So how about you all?

What are your recurring job-related nightmares? Except for Henry, who lives a bliss-filled,
stress-free life, I'm pretty sure we all have them.

[Wood Fairy Glenda]

     Not job-related, but school-related for me, Ann. You know, I'm about to take an exam in Latin and find that it's really an algebra exam..... Haven't studied, in the wrong room.... totally panicked.
     Haven't had an exam in many a year,  but when I have one of these dreams, I know there's something in my life that I've been avoiding and that has to be confronted....ASAP!

     

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I just asked SS what his dream was. He's been self-employed most all of
his life, so maybe that's why his recurring dream goes all the way back
to college days, showing up for the test with no pencils, showing up
for the last day of class for finals after having missed the entire semester,
you know the terror.

But David was a hands-on dad, partly because he did
get to determine his own schedule. (I'm not the mother of
these kids so I'm going on what I've been told by them all.)
Maybe that is also why the notion of job translates to
being a parent in his sleep life, because he says that his recurring anxiety
dreams (even with his kids all growed up), still have to do
with losing the children or various related disasters.

[saabnet]

I just asked SS what his dream was. He's been self-employed most all of
his life, so maybe that's why his recurring dream goes all the way back
to college days, showing up for the test with no pencils, showing up
for the last day of class for finals after having missed the entire semester,
you know the terror.

That's it exactly! I didn't post because having been in my self-employed dream job for many years now, I just don't have any job-related nightmares, but the one recurring dream I have, probably every month, is that I show up for college finals realizing I have not gone to a single class with a definite feeling of, WTF was I thinking?!?! I had this dream last week with a new twist. I was trying to fake my way through the exam and everyone else was finishing up while I was only about 25% done, so this time, I stuck the exam paper in my pocket and snuck out hoping to claim the professor lost it or something... what the hell does it mean?!?!

...when I have one of these dreams, I know there's something in my life that I've been avoiding...

Damn, Glenda's got it spot on...

-Scott