The Happy and Prosperous Blog

As you will gather from the title, this is part 3 of a series of posts describing my escape from the corporate cubicle. Please read part 1 and part 2 first if you would like the full story.

A Slow Start

Given that my homeopathy practice was slow to take off and my finances were a little strained, having done a 3 day a week work pattern for a year, I agreed to go back to work at the bank for 4 days a week again. This was OK. It seemed like the right decision and I did not resent this one bit. I was just disappointed that my homeopathy business had not taken off in the way I had hoped.

A Big IT Project

At this time in my career at the bank I was given a large and time critical project to deliver. I had a great team and, over the course of 3 months or so, we did all the necessary work and completed the project successfully on time and under budget. Great !! And, I knew that I could not do this type of work forever. I wanted to develop my homeopathy practice and do more of something I felt was more worthwhile so I asked to reduce my hours at the bank again.

The Dream

Photo by Martin Pettitt

My manager could not agree to my request due to my responsibilities and said she needed to do a reorganisation in the department in which she would find me a 3 day a week post. I was happy with this arrangement until I had a dream.

Now, I do not often remember my dreams. However, one night around this time I had a clear dream which I remembered the following morning and the story of it has stayed with me ever since.

In my dream I was looking at a building site. On this land a huge, immensely tall building was being constructed. It was at the early stages of construction and there was just a skeleton of girders there. On the ground there were people, machinery, mounds of earth and all sorts of construction materials.

There was a massive crane hoisting the final girders up to the highest point of the building. Two long metal girders were being lifted in a loop of chain. The steel girders were just balanced in this loop of chain. Nothing else secured them. As the crane moved I could see these steel girders start to slip. I was too far away to do anything apart from watch as these two long, heavy steel girders slipped and fell to the ground. As they came crashing down, I could see that 3 people on the ground had been killed.

Next time I’ll tell you about how I interpreted the dream.

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