I have a contract job. Running a massive project. It's been under resourced from the start. It's delayed by a year. Now under pressure to deliver by June. I have a counterpart who runs the technical side. He has over promised and under delivered. The stakeholders are impossible. The vendors are impossible. I am broken. Stakeholders are lawyers so they just argue every point and it all gets very circular. In the beginning I thought I could fix it with process. I was wrong.
I have 2 beautiful kids who I am missing out on. I am single and lonely. I am losing my health.
I have good savings. Shall I just walk away? I am so scared they would bad mouth me and I lose my reputation and maybe they wouldn't give me a good reference.
I feel like I have failed so want to get it to some sort of fruition but there are so many factors beyond my control.
Please help. Should I just walk away?