OK this is pretty random, but do any of you have dreams about past projects and/or office happenings. I do, maybe once a month or so. I wake up and say to myself WTH! was that. I stopped telling my wife about them.?ÿ
?ÿ ?ÿ I??ve been retired 10 + years now. You would think things would fade. Maybe not. ????
I periodically dream about working on a project somewhere in the mountains with an employer I last worked for in 1993.?ÿ They're not stressful dreams, and sometimes they're quite fun, but that's a lot of years under the bridge to be reaching back through.
You mean surveyors can retire?
but do any of you have dreams about past projects and/or office happenings.
I have been retired for almost 3 years but my dreams about projects are classified as nightmares. ?????ÿ
@jim-frame me too, similar timeframe. ?ÿIn my dreams I am going back to work for the employer I left ~1998. ?ÿI worked there off and on 1989 - 1998. ?ÿOverall it was a good place to work. ?ÿHad fun. ?ÿThe dreams feel a little like going home.
All the time. My most reoccurring ones being from my transition from rodman to I-man and laying out the runways and taxiways of Memphis International Airport.?ÿ I don't mind telling you, I was a lost ball in tall weeds on that project.
For years I had basically the same dream about the miserable large firm I left 22 years ago to start my own firm. I'm in the office, utterly bored with nothing to do, and I haven't filled in a time card in four years (their time card system was horrid) and nobody had noticed. Then I realize I have my own company and I don't have to go to work there anymore, so out the door I go, leaving a bare desk. Then I can't remember where I parked my car.?ÿ
I dream about sirens going off and jumping up grabbing my molly suit and gas mask running to a bunker. I was once woke up so many times that the last time i dragged my cot to the bunker and just slept. The next day morning my Gunny came and got me and told me i had data to submit. Now any of y??all that have dowloaded static files from the okd ashtechs z-12??s and Trimble 4000 ssi. Know how slow that is. Now this was not for me 15 to 30 minutes of data per session it was 6 units collecting for 24 hours. For some to be used as PPP and others for baselines. Talking about hurry up and wait lol. And any log sheet that was incorrect had to be rejected. So here we go again lol. I am legally deaf in my left ear because the tent I slept in was on the side of a runway where fighter jets took off and landed all night lol . I can still wake from that dream and be up on my feet and ready to process data . My wife looks at me and is angry when i have those dreams because it wakes her up. ?ÿ
@bruce-small yes, many similarities!
Dang you guys.?ÿ I can't remember the last time I had a dream that involved surveying.?ÿ Then, sometime early this morning I had a brief dream where I had purchased a small tract of land with a house and farm buildings.?ÿ Somehow I knew that some of the buildings were outside of the boundary line on the south side of the tract, but no one had ever cared.?ÿ But, then I was being hosted by the next door neighbor who was offering me French toast and vodka for lunch.
Y'all just need to chill, we ain't here as long as we think..... ?????ÿ
And for those of us really old farts...
Glad to see that I??m not alone, on this. ???
No dreams about surveying.?ÿ I don't dream much after I stopped drinking sodas-- the sugar and caffeine isn't there to make my mind race throughout the night.?ÿ If I do have a dream now it's usually something that makes almost no sense at all, or a minor school-related nightmare.?ÿ The last 2 or 3 I had were about being back in college with barely passing grades in classes (typically english) that I absolutely hated.?ÿ I never did poorly in these classes despite my hatred for them but for some reason they pop up as irrelevant roadblocks to the thing I actually want to do.
@flga-2-2?ÿ
Love that Johnny Horton production.?ÿ Truth is I might have had ancestors fighting on both sides of that battle.?ÿ The British must have been surveyors.?ÿ That's the only category of people I know who spend their time in the briars, brambles and bushes so frequently.
@flga-2-2 The Battle of New Orleans is one of my favorite songs. I was briefing once while in a area where we had our allies Brits in the room as well. Anyway I used that as my attention getter before my brief. Some had never heard it some had and we all had a big laugh. Great folks and we had many beers afterwards. They gave me a tough time. ?ÿNot often some po dunk southern accent feller is doing technical briefs and using words even my finer educated friends here have heard lol. My northern brothers and sisters said I had my own language. One use to keep a notebook of sayings i and analogies I would use. Said he was going to retire on my words i. A book.
Why that story's cuter than a speckled pup under a red wagon.