Welcome to Engineering, where, instead of doing actual work, you spend almost all of your time and effort:

*Looking for work
*Marketing without using any standard marketing techniques
*Fighting your competitors for work
*Thinking of ways to do work faster so you can charge less for your work
*Arguing with your client about the contract conditions so your insurance company will let you do the work
*Writing War and Peace business proposals with cost breakdowns to the nearest 0.0001 cents
*Fighting your client for the resources and inputs you need to do your work
*Arguing with your client about the contortionist strategies you have derived to work within their contract conditions
*Fighting with your colleagues about the costs of doing the work
*Begging your boss not to give the work to someone else in your team
*Fighting with your client to get paid after you have done the work
*Fighting with your client in court after you've done the work when they sue you for something that wasn't your fault
*Having meetings with your boss as to why you have to be at least 85% chargeable
*Filling out your timesheet with 100% truthful records showing you have worked solidly all week doing real work.