Volunteer Work at Republic Services

Date: 7/7/2020

For context, I received a Republic Services vest, hat, belt buckle, and shades from my local trash collector last month, and I wear them on Monday (which is trash day in my neighborhood). So, after a long day today of following the trash and recycling trucks, picking up messes and standing up cans that were tipped over, I took a long afternoon nap. When I went to sleep, I had the strangest dream. In the dream, I’m doing volunteer work for Republic Services. I’m in an office, wearing my Republic Services vest. A girl is with me; she may have been some sort of mentor or coach. She looks like she’s in her twenties, not much older than I. She begins to cry, because I have a Republic Services vest and she doesn’t (keep in mind that she’s been with Republic Services longer than I have). I try to comfort her and hug her, and it works temporarily, but then she cries harder and then drives away in her car (probably out of frustration and jealousy for me). Then another girl, also about my age, walks by, pulling a dolly or something with stuff on it. She’s walking into a hall that leads to a mall/retail area, which has nothing to do with Republic Services. Someone asks her a question, I think, and she responds with something along the lines of “I don’t have a vest like [my name]”. As she says that, I can hear the jealousy in her voice, especially as she says my name. It’s almost like she resents me for having a Republic Services vest, because she doesn’t. Apparently, since I have a Republic Services vest, I must have been revered or a company favorite, and people must’ve been jealous. In this next scene, my dad and I are inside a cave-like hole near a highway. I think it’s raining outside. We’re doing experiments of some sort, trying to make things explode (?). I even slide a rectangular object across the highway, and a car comes almost to a complete stop, trying not to hit the object as it slides by. As the object is sliding, it misses where it’s supposed to go. This scene in the dream emits an energy of the girls at Republic Services who are jealous of me. I think I encounter at least one of the girls in the dream again, but it’s too vague for me to remember.