It has become such a disturbing feature in my dream repertoire that I’ve been getting up in the middle of the night to work!

Here goes:

The dream is set at my old college campus; and it is final exam day. I am staring at a blank exam booklet and I realize that I didn’t spend one minute studying. Suddenly time is up and my answers are either incomplete or rubbish. Then, I realize that I am going to fail, so I ask if I can take the exam again, and the answer is always no — so I start to cry (in the dream).

There is that version or the one where I do not have enough credits to graduate.

I have 2 degrees and finished (a loooong time ago) with good grades. I have heard that dreams of this nature could mean that I believe I don’t have adequate “life tools” that I am unprepared.

Interestingly, if you tie those thoughts to how my career has developed, I guess you could make some connections. While I am now running my own small business, my efforts at corporate life were often miserable, in that I was so terrible at understanding how to engineer office politics and managing up that my stints at some of the largest Fortune 500 companies didn’t last.

Do you see any correlations? In the mean time, as I write this post, a producer of a TV show wants to interview me for a segment about The Pet Set…so maybe I’m ok?

Please let me know your thoughts.

Post from: Blisstree

Can you interpret my dream?

Hi all…allow me to introduce myself, my name is Kim and I have recently joined b5media so that I may preside over Blog Fabulous, as Christine moves toward new goals.

I find it interesting that my favorite movie (best movie theme ever!) is Working Girl with Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford, and here I am contributing to a blog which is dedicated to the needs and interests of working women. Some kind of cosmic force developing here, I would say.

I am a 20 year marketing and advertising veteran and have truly been in the trenches — working at varied companies from small ad agencies to large Fortune 500 corporations; I have seen it all and have much to share.

Presently, I work from my home in Bergen County, New Jersey–where I have created, own and operate a small business called The Pet Set. The Pet Set is an elegant line of stationery for dogs and owners who have very discerning taste. Think Smythson of Bond Street for dogs.

I live with my husband of 22 years and our beloved Chocolate Labrador, Trotter — who was in fact the inspiration for The Pet Set.

I know that many of you were loyal fans of Christine’s and to Blog Fabulous, so my only intent is to continue in that fashion, and perhaps as time goes on, you will begin to appreciate my style and points of view. Hopefully new friends will join as well.

For my initial entry, I was thinking about NBC’s The Office (btw the British version is much darkerer and funnier and you must download Ricky Gervais’s podcasts…too hilarious).

At the conclusion of last night’s episode, NBC aired a fake Public Service Annoucement presented by two of The Office cast members. In character, each gave hers and his point of view about office relationships. She was absolutely in favor of them, he was totally against.

The whole thing was an April Fool’s spoof and very silly, but it still made me wonder what do people think about office romances?

Do you think you can meet your soulmate or do you think it’s a dangerous idea, both personally and professionally? And here is the smoking gun, so to speak, have you ever known anyone who has moved up the ladder as a result of having had an office affair?

I would love to know your thoughts.

P.S. I have never had an office fling, so I am on the “it’s dangerous” side of this discussion.

It’s great to be here!

Post from: Blisstree

The Renewal of Spring and the Arrival of “The New Girl”.