Dream Job

Sometimes people think I have an exciting job, based on my job title, which is Landscape Designer if you don't already know. And although I find it fun and rewarding, it is not what most people find exciting.

I go to a lot of municipal public meetings to get feedback about reports I've written. At these meetings people often talk about their taxes, or their sidewalks, or the roof on the civic center, or basically any other topic aside from the one at hand.

Occasionally someone will have actually read the report and will have liked it, which makes it a rewarding night. Mostly people won't have read it, and when they come to gripe about us ignoring some issue or other, it is also rewarding to cut them off and say, "Actually, we discuss that issue at length on pages 15-17."

I dreamt about my job last night. One of those dreams where it's pretty close to reality, except for a few small details.

In this case, I was attending a public meeting about a municipal comprehensive plan at the Town Hall of one of our clients. It was exactly as exciting as actually attending one of these meetings. The only difference between the dream and reality was that after the meeting ended, we started putting away the folding chairs in an enormous annex that the town had built on to their Town Hall. See, they don't have an annex.

I think I actually bored myself awake with that one. Well, the meeting was over, and the chairs were put away, so what point was there in sticking around?