New Job

(My dream journal dated 21 May 2005)

I’ve been in the current job for five years. A sense of dullness starts to sink in. It’s time for a change.

I get a new job in a law firm as a legal secretary. I think by working in a law firm I could learn a lot of legal side of things which will be valuable for me. Not only that, they pay me reasonably well - $46,000 per annum.

It’s my first day in the new job. I note that there are four lawyers in this firm - all of the four partners are male. Funny enough they all look similar - dressed in dark suits and all appear either in their thirties or forties. There are three young ladies who are the secretaries or assistants.

“They must be doing well then, if they can afford three secretaries in a firm of four lawyers.” I think.

The lawyers all seem very busy. I don’t know which one is my boss as no one makes a special effort to talk to me. They are constantly on the go.

The receptionist at the front desk is kind enough to volunteered herself to give me a tour in the office but it is very brief. I am disappointed that they don’t seem to have a plan for me as a new person to help me to fit in. I feel no personal touch either.

Then I am given a handwritten document by a lawyer who asks me to type it out for him. I take the draft document with me and sit in front of my desk to type. During typing I am wondering as to why they bothered to employ me as it seems to me that what they need is a typist. I am not really a typist material.

After four days in my new job, I feel terrible about it. Not only I feel under-utilised, nobody seems to have time for me. I must leave this new job.

I want my old job back. I know my previous organisation has no grudge against its previous employees so I approach Bruce my old boss and ask him if it’s possible for me to have my old job back.

He says unfortunately the moment I left he had to replace me. Even though it’s only been a few days he has had my position filled already and the replacement is a young lady who was a solicitor before. I understand that this is not a reflection on his unwillingness to support, he simply doesn’t have a job to give me now.