job hunting and bus waiting

[mellowtigger]

It was cold last night.  I had blankets, but I still turned on the electric pad to the lowest setting.  Autumn is upon us in Minneapolis.  My house furnace turned on for the first time.  I keep it at 19C/67F on the main floor, but it's always much colder than that in my upstairs bedroom during winter.

This is dream #8 for 2022.  Wow, so many dreams this year that I remember upon waking.  It's easy to tell what's on my mind this week.

I was working with someone to improve my resume and cover letter.  She asked me questions about my intentions: part-time versus full-time, contract versus hire, etc.  For inexplicable reasons, though, we were doing this work while she was performing her current job.  I was at her work site having this conversation.  Her boss, supporting her in this endeavor, moved an actual interview she was conducting into the same room where we talked.  Weird.  I waited in the room for them to finish that interview.

As I waited, I sat in a chair at the side of the room, out of their way.  For some reason, I started punching buttons on the phone at the desk next to me.  I think I wanted to call out, but I didn't use my cell phone?  I think I messed up some call forwarding that the boss had used to forward her phone line here during the interview.  Oops.

Suddenly it was later, and most everyone was gone from the building.  I left and took a small shuttle to someplace near home, as close as it would get to my house, which was far from it.  Upon leaving the shuttle, I noticed a car here that was one of those new [within the dream] A.I. taxis.  I decided it was cheaper to take the bus, so I kept walking to the next station.  Unfortunately, that was a rather long walk.

The station I needed was located at a major hub.  It was a long line of busy commercial street.  It was some weird combination of downtown Minneapolis and a stretch of busy road next to the Texas A&M University in College Station [where I first went to college in real life some 35 years ago].  There were stop numbers but nothing indicating routes.  I was having a hard time finding my pick-up location, so I kept walking back and forth along the long stretch of road and bus stops.  I finally picked a location, recognizing [within the dream, not real life] a few faces.

I was growing frustrated with how much time I wasted walking around, unsure if I had already missed the most recent bus.  Maybe it would be faster to just walk home?  I got my cell phone and opened the app for that A.I. taxi service.  Maybe I could call that car I noticed earlier.  I did, and it started moving.  Unfortunately, by habit, I entered my home address instead of my current location as the destination, so the car began moving to the wrong place.  I figured out how to cancel the call.  The car pulled over and stopped, and the app charged me only about $3 for the brief trip.

I looked up, and almost everybody was gone.  The few people still there were unfamiliar to me.  I missed my bus.

Then I woke up.  Life will certainly be easier when we have A.I. taxis around at any hour of the day or night.  We won't need privately owned vehicles then for city life.  I look forward to it.