Job dreams are more related to unnamed people, more related to peers, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

Job dreams are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.

Dreams of jobs are more related to home, much more related to work, and much more related to human-made places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.

Dreams of jobs are more related to friendly acts and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and less related to death.

Job dreams are more related to vivid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Dreams of jobs are less related to hearing, less related to vision, and less related to touch.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience jobs in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about jobs in dreams. See how you feel about jobs now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Considering the importance of work and career for so many people, it’s not surprising that dreaming about your job is common. These dreams usually reflect recent events and situations related to it. However, expand the idea of what constitutes a job, and consider how the word is used to mean something other than formal employment, and dreams can branch out from there to touch on a variety of subjects. For example, being a parent is a job. Maintaining social relationships requires work, and for some people “networking” is an integral part of their job. A hobby that you’re trying to turn into a paid gig is treated like a job. The possibilities go on and on. A man dreams that he has two jobs, both in restaurants, and decides to call off one of them. It symbolizes his feeling of being overextended. He has a career and home to take care of, and he’s too busy with work to put as much effort into his home. It has to wait, symbolized as calling off of work. Now let’s return to “job” meaning what you do for a living. Your dreams can branch out to tell a story about advancement, authority, recognition, prestige, pressure, time management, skill, competence, education, training, compensation, choice. Dreams can talk about your job—or a job—without referring to it directly. For example, shopping at a mall can symbolize casting a wide net for a job, because a mall is place with many stores (employers) to choose from, and making a purchase is an investment you make (giving your time and energy) in return for what you get in return (salary, benefits, authority, challenge, prestige). Fishing can symbolize looking for a job. See: Malls Dreams involving driving and your car can be closely connected with your job. A car takes you places in life, and so can your job. See: Cars For more examples of other not-so-obvious dream themes that can connect with your job, see: Horse, Journey, Lost, Marriage, Robot, Servant. The dreaming mind is a very clever storyteller, oblique when it needs to be or when that’s the best way to tell the story. However, it can be direct. If a dream takes place at your place of work or involves co-workers and other people related to your work or occupation, it’s a clue that the subject somehow relates to your job. For an example, see: Walmart. Remember, though, that dreams can address anything related to your job, and they don’t necessarily have to use your workplace as a setting. Instead, your workplace, even if it’s at home or on the road, is portrayed through a different setting based on your associations and feelings. See: Dungeons In another example, a woman dreams about an apocalyptic battle symbolizing her job conditions working in the front office of a school. She loves the work, but it can be a battle to get everything done. See: Fighting Dreams about your job are not necessarily related directly to events at work, but instead address something related. For example, a female dreams that she is at work, at her desk, and a co-worker comes up and touches her suggestively, distracting her. The dream is about the dreamer’s distraction at work. She was recently on her honeymoon and her mind is not on her work. See: Coworkers A man dreams that he’s at a party with his co-workers and he’s naked. No one seems to notice, though. Being naked symbolizes his fear that he’ll be exposed for not knowing how to do his job—he’s still new. And his nakedness going unnoticed symbolizes that no one knows he doesn’t really know what he’s doing at work. Use the entries listed below to further explore this subject. This book has entries for a variety of occupations (nurse, pilot, doctor, artist, police officer, soldier) and titles (president, captain, general) and work settings (grocery store, restaurant, school) that are addressed as symbolism, generally not from the point of view of someone who works in those occupations, but it still could be helpful to read them if your job or dream involves them. They are too numerous to list. See also: Armies, Bosses, Cars, Computers, Coworkers, Dismissals, Dungeons, Emails, Employees, Famousness, Fighting, Guns, Prostitutes, Lost, Being naked, Police, Principals, Robots, Servants, Tackling, Teacher, Unemployment, Vacations, walmart