Just remember not to say it out loud and we'll all be fine

Sometimes the best you can hope for is that the next existential crisis does not come mid-way through a project, especially not when you are trying to consider one by one a trillion comments from the client’s various staff. If it does, you might find yourself staring at the screen thinking ‘really, Sharon, does it matter?’ or ‘well, yes, there are better measures, but the error involved with your measurement is so huge anyway’ or ‘but really, will you do anything with the numbers?’. It can be rather demotivating. The last thing you need is to be whooshed away into a view of the world through geological time, or feel tender pained affection for the client’s earnest engagement on one tiny issue compared to everything else that needs doing. It seems so quaint sometimes. Lucky they can only read what I write and not what I think but don’t write.