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Green Room - Week 2 - Day 9
Jul. 18th, 2024 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clauderainsrm I had a dream last night that I was at my new job (except that there were a couple former co-workers there instead of one) and I was struggling to understand what I was supposed to be doing. There were just a bunch of papers with information on them and I had to unscramble what it all meant.
Which is, IMO, a straight-line of thought patterns to the fears of going into a brand new job. Obviously I'm not going to know what any of these papers and numbers mean and will have to be figuring it out as I go (with help from the trainers)
The twist of the dream is that I was also working part-time at my old job, having been brought back in as a consultant. But the CFO had just attempted to fire me again. Only this time I had called in so he hadn't fired me YET... I just knew the next day I worked that it was going to happen.
So maybe hanging on to the anxieties of the old job and how they could interfere with the new?
I need to get more complex dreams. Maybe if all of this happened in space instead? My former CFO was secretly an alien the entire time and we did a Scooby Doo meets V unmasking? "I would have fired you all if not for those meddling kids!!!!"
The latter is probably the combination of going from somewhere that was super stressful but familiar to a place (allegedly) a lot calmer. Perhaps one of those "I know how to fail in this place, and I am going to fail at some point at the new one... but how do I recover from that?" or maybe that wasn't part of the dream but rather just another thought I've been dealing with?
It doesn't help that I got a recent update on what is happening at the old job - they demoted the "interim" supervisor and moved the supervisor from the other department (the one I always thought I was going to end up working for) over to supervise the Data Team. (Which means they couldn't find anyone else who was qualified to take the job)... they didn't put both departments under him, they literally just moved him from one department to the other. In public he's saying it's a great opportunity to prove how useful he is... from what I understand he's not happy to be taken out of a cushy position and put directly into the fire and being gaslit with "we believe in you".
IF Leadership can stay out of his way and let him restore what I had - and make improvements, I think he could do a really good job. IF Leadership continues down the path they have committed to though, they are leading him down a really hard path. But maybe he's the guy to pull it off!
Either way, not my concern other than caring for what happens to the department and the people still there that I genuinely care about. (and the success of the overall mission of caring for foster kids)
What is happening with all of those new papers, and understanding them - THAT is now my problem. That is where I need to concentrate.
Well, even that is not entirely true. What I need to concentrate on is the REAL work of forcing people to write and then eliminating them!
Speaking of, here is the poll, it closes tonight, so do YOUR job as readers and vote! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1144477.html
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How have YOU handled transitions with jobs? I assume that much like moving, I'm going to have dreams that I'm working at both places at once and/or that I'm just realizing that I left something in my old high school locker and have to go back and get it. :)
Which is, IMO, a straight-line of thought patterns to the fears of going into a brand new job. Obviously I'm not going to know what any of these papers and numbers mean and will have to be figuring it out as I go (with help from the trainers)
The twist of the dream is that I was also working part-time at my old job, having been brought back in as a consultant. But the CFO had just attempted to fire me again. Only this time I had called in so he hadn't fired me YET... I just knew the next day I worked that it was going to happen.
So maybe hanging on to the anxieties of the old job and how they could interfere with the new?
I need to get more complex dreams. Maybe if all of this happened in space instead? My former CFO was secretly an alien the entire time and we did a Scooby Doo meets V unmasking? "I would have fired you all if not for those meddling kids!!!!"
The latter is probably the combination of going from somewhere that was super stressful but familiar to a place (allegedly) a lot calmer. Perhaps one of those "I know how to fail in this place, and I am going to fail at some point at the new one... but how do I recover from that?" or maybe that wasn't part of the dream but rather just another thought I've been dealing with?
It doesn't help that I got a recent update on what is happening at the old job - they demoted the "interim" supervisor and moved the supervisor from the other department (the one I always thought I was going to end up working for) over to supervise the Data Team. (Which means they couldn't find anyone else who was qualified to take the job)... they didn't put both departments under him, they literally just moved him from one department to the other. In public he's saying it's a great opportunity to prove how useful he is... from what I understand he's not happy to be taken out of a cushy position and put directly into the fire and being gaslit with "we believe in you".
IF Leadership can stay out of his way and let him restore what I had - and make improvements, I think he could do a really good job. IF Leadership continues down the path they have committed to though, they are leading him down a really hard path. But maybe he's the guy to pull it off!
Either way, not my concern other than caring for what happens to the department and the people still there that I genuinely care about. (and the success of the overall mission of caring for foster kids)
What is happening with all of those new papers, and understanding them - THAT is now my problem. That is where I need to concentrate.
Well, even that is not entirely true. What I need to concentrate on is the REAL work of forcing people to write and then eliminating them!
Speaking of, here is the poll, it closes tonight, so do YOUR job as readers and vote! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1144477.html
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How have YOU handled transitions with jobs? I assume that much like moving, I'm going to have dreams that I'm working at both places at once and/or that I'm just realizing that I left something in my old high school locker and have to go back and get it. :)
