Types of projects you'll experience at work, as taught to us by Kurt Vonnegut:

1. Man in Hole: The project starts off OK, but you quickly find a huge issue, which you are able to recover from, and it ends up a big success.

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2. Boy Meets Girl: The project starts incredibly well, but quickly turns into a nightmare, which you recover from and it ends up even better than it started.

3. From Bad to Worse: You take on a project that's going badly, and it only continues to get worse.

4. Which Way is Up: You're working on a project and you have no idea if it's going well or not.

5. Creation Story: Your project keeps getting more and more resources, which you take and find uses for.

6. Old Testament: Your project keeps getting more and more resources, which you take and find uses for, but soon lead to your team struggling to ship and eventually your downfall.

7. New Testament aka Cinderella: Your project keeps getting more resources, which you take and find uses for, but soon leads to your team struggling to ship and eventually your almost downfall, until figure out how to leverage these resources and ship a game-changing product.

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