DREAM
I wake up in a nightgown in a bed. It's daylight. There are other beds next to mine. People are milling about. Then I realize I'm in a mental hospital. I get up and explore my limited possibilities around the room. I talk with the fellow patients and the nurses. A nurse explains to be that I won't be allowed to leave unless I pass an aptitude test for the thing I studied in my master's program.
"Can I study for this test?"
The nurse laughs and says, "No!"
I get that you're not supposed to study for an aptitude test, but it's not fair that I should have to see whether or not I would like this job before I can be released back into larger society.
I don't think I'll pass, so I start looking around for ways to escape. I'm considering charging at the nurses at the front doors.
INTERPRETATION
I'm not really interested in what I went to school for my master's degree anymore. So I'm looking for alternatives to traditional work, like freelancing, or maybe trying to get something traditionally published again. But I definitely feel a pressure from friends and random people, like neighbors, to pursue what I studied, or get some other traditional job.
