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Conversed with an ex-boss by phone. Do not trust this ex-boss (became aware during my time there of her manipulative skills; later near the end of my time there found out it was worse than I'd realized); have not interacted with her since I left that job. Here, though, I had mellowed enough so that I thought, what the hell, and said I would stop by.
Except she seem to be running a department not at the tuition-dependent school we worked at, but at some high-level place, like a Harvard. I went into a huge building, and proceeded to go accidentally to one floor above the one she was on. Had to backtrack, but first looked around a little, and noted that this place had so much money that each floor looked like it could host a convention - that’s how big the lecture halls were, and how much space there was. I noted as much to a student arriving in one big lecture hall for a class, and she agreed with me.
Backtracked one floor down and was walking around the department trying to figure out where my bosses office likely was. Wandered into one area and ran into a former coworker, a paraprofessional. She seemed very surprised when I claimed that my ex-boss (whom I had not found yet) had (in the past?) indicated that I was management material, and might take over the department someday. To be honest not sure where that came from, unless just Wishful Thinking, as I have decided that I would not make a good management material due to emotional management issues. Would probably have significant trouble being unbiased when emotional. Also tend towards Anxiety, which leads to occasional paranoid moments. The only thing I would have going for me is that I'd care about the welfare of the employees in a 'Do you have what you need; are you taking your breaks?' manner. Somewhat protective. I'd probably find it more difficult to be the ruthless, manipulative type at the top who if necessary sacrifices employees to keep top Admins happy.
I was woken up by an alarm; as of dreams end, still had not run into the ex-boss.
Except she seem to be running a department not at the tuition-dependent school we worked at, but at some high-level place, like a Harvard. I went into a huge building, and proceeded to go accidentally to one floor above the one she was on. Had to backtrack, but first looked around a little, and noted that this place had so much money that each floor looked like it could host a convention - that’s how big the lecture halls were, and how much space there was. I noted as much to a student arriving in one big lecture hall for a class, and she agreed with me.
Backtracked one floor down and was walking around the department trying to figure out where my bosses office likely was. Wandered into one area and ran into a former coworker, a paraprofessional. She seemed very surprised when I claimed that my ex-boss (whom I had not found yet) had (in the past?) indicated that I was management material, and might take over the department someday. To be honest not sure where that came from, unless just Wishful Thinking, as I have decided that I would not make a good management material due to emotional management issues. Would probably have significant trouble being unbiased when emotional. Also tend towards Anxiety, which leads to occasional paranoid moments. The only thing I would have going for me is that I'd care about the welfare of the employees in a 'Do you have what you need; are you taking your breaks?' manner. Somewhat protective. I'd probably find it more difficult to be the ruthless, manipulative type at the top who if necessary sacrifices employees to keep top Admins happy.
I was woken up by an alarm; as of dreams end, still had not run into the ex-boss.
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