Anxiety Dream

Had my first ever sales-related anxiety dream last night.

I used to get them all the time when I was working as a food server: dreams where my section was spread out over the entire restaurant that now magically had multiple stories, with my tables at every level, spread apart, and demanding; where that ketchup I was trying to get for table 118 was not in the bus station, nor in the back up in the kitchen, but was still in a box in the locked storeroom and I couldn’t find the manager for the key because he had to drive to the bank in the middle of service…

I haven’t worked at a restaurant for years, and haven’t had an anxiety dream for ages, so this was new.

Evidently, it was the beginning of Q1, and we were all being given our new plans.  Since we’re all still remote, over a phone call, I got notification of the year, with a rambling message from a nervous manager, already sensing pushback and trying to placate me ahead of bad news:

For FY 2022, our whole team was being converted. Our pay would be the same, but the titles would shift, and we’d have to adjust our processes.

We were going to be BDRs, not AEs.

I was going to be a BDR.

Fortunately, I realized I was in a dream and was able to wake myself before the revelations got any worse, but I found myself in a cold sweat this morning, unable to go back to sleep, and I’m still trying to recover from the vestiges of that nightmare.

Of course, if any of you have stories to share, I’d love to hear them to shake off the horror I still feel.