I can't believe I said that...

I sometimes feel that some of the hoops I help customers jump through are a bit pointless and vacuous, but even so, there was no excuse for my response to a request today to produce a programme vision statement to a short deadline.

I said words to the effect of:

Not a problem - we're consultants. Verbal diarrhoea is our bread and butter...

I feel very, very dirty today. Does anyone have a chrysalis I can crawl into as a consultant and walk out of into an occupation with more inherent meaning?