There’s some truth in the saying that goes, ‘If you finish what you started, only then can you look back and see how well you did.’
I don’t claim the credit for this. Maybe it was Confucius or one of those other Clever Dicks… or maybe it was a variation of a saying my father drilled into me, which usually went along the lines of, ‘Finish that and you can start something else.’ It made a kind of sense back when I was young enough to heed his advice, and because I couldn’t see the hitch coming, which was often another job he needed doing around the house or garden. But since the next job usually led to some kind of reward – he was a fair-minded employer – I couldn’t complain too much.