SCENE 2
A Project That Hurts to Think About
It’s 10:30 a.m. Paul picks up a thick pile of papers still warm from the printer. It’s a fifty-page brief for a software project that’s bigger than anything he’s done before. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in less than an hour the client is expecting to receive a proposal, in preparation for a lunch meeting today.
Paul had wanted to start working on a proposal when the brief arrived four days ago. At the time he had read over the document lightly, but it had all seemed too complex, and he’d gotten distracted by something else. Because he usually needs only an hour to write up a proposal, he hadn’t worried about doing this before today. He hadn’t noticed how much bigger the project was ...
