Retired and still having work stress dreams?

[tvguy]

Anyone else still having them? I'm a relatively new retiree, 3 1/2 years, but I still have work stress dreams every few weeks. But a former co-worker who has been retired 20 years says he still has them.
I worked 3 places over my 45 year career, and the dreams are variously at each company. Even my first employer, which I left 35 years ago.
The dream is pretty much the same, it's 10 minutes before a newscast and I am just sitting down to start writing it. Sometimes it is at a computer, sometimes at a typewriter. That normally would be 6 hours work.

 

[DL55]

Yes! I was a medical technologist 20+ years ago. I still have dreams where I'm to start a test but can't find the procedure manual to verify the method.

 

[peabody58]

Very common actually. I still have very realistic dreams from my Navy Submarine days, as well as at my last employee, a Nuclear Power Plant. What I find interesting is that now when I have these dreams, I am aware that I am happily retired and know that at 67 yo, I really don't want to work or go out to sea. I'm still waiting for dreams that I'm at WDW chasing for a paper Fast Pass ticket!

 

[eandt]

Anyone else still having them? I'm a relatively new retiree, 3 1/2 years, but I still have work stress dreams every few weeks. But a former co-worker who has been retired 20 years says he still has them.
I worked 3 places over my 45 year career, and the dreams are variously at each company. Even my first employer, which I left 35 years ago.
The dream is pretty much the same, it's 10 minutes before a newscast and I am just sitting down to start writing it. Sometimes it is at a computer, sometimes at a typewriter. That normally would be 6 hours work.

Nope .. walked out the door 13 years ago and never looked back or missed it … no dreams good or bad ..felt like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders …

 

[lilmc]

So late 40s here and I still have high school anxiety dreams, so……….

 

[Akck]

No work related dreams for 10+ years since retirement. Wife, on the other hand, has them every so often.

 

[man-from-nantucket]

Very common actually. I still have very realistic dreams from my Navy Submarine days, as well as at my last employee, a Nuclear Power Plant. What I find interesting is that now when I have these dreams, I am aware that I am happily retired and know that at 67 yo, I really don't want to work or go out to sea. I'm still waiting for dreams that I'm at WDW chasing for a paper Fast Pass ticket!

Gotta ask, what plant?

 

[tachyonbb]

I was a physics teacher. Ten years retired and I still have dreams that I am sitting at my desk with four minutes before class and can't remember where the class is in the curriculum and I am scrambling to figure out what I am supposed to teach that day.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Yes, from a few of my past jobs not just the last!

 

[Wood Nymph]

I worked for almost 19 years at a finance job in downtown Chicago. I retired 5 years ago. I took a commuter train to and from my job. The dream I had most often was about missing the train or getting on the wrong train.

 

[The Mayor]

I had them my first year of retirement and it was pretty much the same dream of trying to meet a customer deadline and being way behind on the project. They stopped after the first year and coming up on 6 years retired and they haven't returned.

 

[tvguy]

Nope .. walked out the door 13 years ago and never looked back or missed it … no dreams good or bad ..felt like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders …

I can relate to the conscience part, not looking back and having a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.
The un-conscience part, especially flashing back to a job I left 35 years ago is really digging into the dark recesses of my memory.

 

[Minniesgal]

I had the university exam stress dreams for about 5 years after I left

 

[FastPasser.]

I'm still waiting for dreams that I'm at WDW chasing for a paper Fast Pass ticket!

As a WDW retiree you’d think I would have an occasional dream about my many amazing experiences but I haven’t.

I do have flashbacks about my time there and regret that it had to come to an end.

 

[MIGrandma]

Yes, I still have dreams about my last job. I worked 12 years as a waitress in a mom and pop diner type restaurant. I always dream the same stuff, I’m in the weeds, can’t find silverware or glasses, always out of ice, things have been moved, etc. Hate those dreams. I never dream about my other jobs (video store clerk, church secretary), just the diner. I have been retired since October 2008.

 

[Micca]

40+ years in the same biz, retired for 12 years and still have the occasional work-anxiety dream. In my dreams I get so perplexed on solving some problem and then wake up with a big smile on my face because I don't have to fix that problem!

 

[disneyseniors]

Anyone else still having them? I'm a relatively new retiree, 3 1/2 years, but I still have work stress dreams every few weeks. But a former co-worker who has been retired 20 years says he still has them.
I worked 3 places over my 45 year career, and the dreams are variously at each company. Even my first employer, which I left 35 years ago.
The dream is pretty much the same, it's 10 minutes before a newscast and I am just sitting down to start writing it. Sometimes it is at a computer, sometimes at a typewriter. That normally would be 6 hours work.

Well, tvguy, I won't be much help, LOL.
I've been retired over 20 years and I still have those work nightmares. I am a retired RN, and I keep having this dream that I miss one patient on my list and never realize I haven't seen them all shift until it's time to leave. WHY? I don't know. I have never done anything like that in my career. I wish the dream would just go away.

 

[Judique]

@tvguy -retired since early 2018 and no stress or dreams. Walked out when my time came and never looked back as I knew I'd trained competent people over the years to take my place.

What does happen is I wake up on the exact same time everyday that I did while I worked. This is an ungodly early hour. Seems my body programmed itself and nothing seems to interfere, even staying up very late. I also fall asleep too early and have tried to fix that by taking an afternoon nap, but I'm just not really a napping type person.

People ask me all the time do I miss my work. No. I feel I progressed there as far as I could and wanted to and that it was time for new adventures. Did I enjoy working? Yes, the people I worked with were supportive and the people I supported were grateful for what I passed on to them. I hear it all the time when I meet them in public. Sometimes I don't even know who they are as I had a long career with a lot of reports.

@disneyseniors - thank you for the giving job you did! Some of my best friends have been RNs and I know what a demanding job it is. Seems the job was never done, just passed on to the next person to come on shift. I used to meet one at work and wait for her in the room where they passed info to the next shift (way before rules kicked in). They never got out on time as there was always more care to be given.

 

[tvguy]

@tvguy -retired since early 2018 and no stress or dreams. Walked out when my time came and never looked back as I knew I'd trained competent people over the years to take my place.

What does happen is I wake up on the exact same time everyday that I did while I worked. This is an ungodly early hour. Seems my body programmed itself and nothing seems to interfere, even staying up very late. I also fall asleep too early and have tried to fix that by taking an afternoon nap, but I'm just not really a napping type person.

People ask me all the time do I miss my work. No. I feel I progressed there as far as I could and wanted to and that it was time for new adventures. Did I enjoy working? Yes, the people I worked with were supportive and the people I supported were grateful for what I passed on to them. I hear it all the time when I meet them in public. Sometimes I don't even know who they are as I had a long career with a lot of reports.

@disneyseniors - thank you for the giving job you did! Some of my best friends have been RNs and I know what a demanding job it is. Seems the job was never done, just passed on to the next person to come on shift. I used to meet one at work and wait for her in the room where they passed info to the next shift (way before rules kicked in). They never got out on time as there was always more care to be given.

Last 13 years I worked I was up at 2 am to be at work at 3 am, only took me about a year of retirement to stop waking up at 2 am. Of course I rolled over and went back to sleep, a luxury I did not have before retiring.
I think the work stress dream that baffles me is when it is at the employer/job that I left 35 years ago.
However, my work stress dreams always seem to include people who never knew each other being together, at places they never worked.
And then last night I had a dream with my dad in it, taking me to a Little League game. He passed away 57 years ago, and I didn't start playing Little League until the year after he passed away. Guess somewhere deep in my brain a little disappointment that he never got to see me play little league was revealed.

 

[peabody58]

Gotta ask, what plant?

After 8 years operating Navy nukes (S1C staff pick up and 2 boomers), spent 3 long months at Shoreham (helped load fuel, and was the 1st operator to run the new Colt diesel). Then I 'Escaped from New York' to work 30 years at the Clinton Nuclear Power Station helping to finish the plant's construction and to eventually retire as a control room Senior Reactor Operator. I was going to run the 'secret' plant under the MK, but Ron Desantos ruined that aspiration.