Recently I had a dream in which I was recruited for a high-security job that involved flying into outer-space on a regular basis to conduct emergency repairs to different types of inter-stellar craft.
There were two superior engineers above me – both female – one of which I somewhat know in real-life (RL) as @nikolhasler. (I’ve never met her in person or actually even shared any bytes of text with her, but I do ‘follow’ her on twitter and some of her other various forms of internet celebrity.)
Anyway, while in space, the work we did as a team seemed to flow naturally, but once we made it down to earth the other crew mates seemed somewhat distant to interaction with me. At one point I confronted the non-Nikol colleague and she told me that she had never really wanted me to be a part of the team and had recommended the hiring committee not select me. She said that my ‘resume’ had seemed ‘weak’ to her, and that she could still feel that weakness in my work. I knew subconsciously what she meant by ‘weakness’ – that I had been too honest about my shortcomings on my application.
I think this carries over into my day to day life – I tend to avoid at all costs being overly confident, sometimes *giving away* any holes in my experience. I think I tend to have a problem with being honest to a fault.
Later I found out that the actual space missions were complete virtual constructs – much like the Star Trek Halodeck – and in fact, I had never really been flying into the stars in the first place.
You dreamed about me? Cool.