That sounds like my working life too Spooky....
I suppose however there are distinctions if I take the Buddhist view as best I understand it.
The higher view is that this time/space/afterlife reality is illusory, and that the game is to transcend it. And that having done so it ceases to be of relevance. (and that includes all religious teaching)
On the other hand those of us stuck in this lower reality, mostly believing it and the illusion of self to be real can only transcend it by through life experience and practice coming to know experientally (belief is irrelevant) that this is the case.
And that the path to this state of consciousness lies in working with our lives to genuinely transcend the lower reality.
So our issues with big projects probably flow from the way we relate to them and the surrounding situation and the inappropriate fear they induce in us - we've still got work to do..
While the higher view might seem to suggest (and is often interpreted in that way) that life is a crock which we can walk away from that's not the case. To interpret it in this way would at best a mistaken view, and at worse an indulging in escapism.
Buddhism and other spiritual traditions (e.g. ACIM which is very clear on this) are I guess full of situation where teachings at differing levels appear to contradict each other.
Tibetan Buddhism splits its teachings to address differing levels or views - the hinayana/mahayana/vajrayana vehicles which build on each other.
Probably just another example of the way that higher truths expressed at this level and via our cognition seem inevitably to entail paradox....