I'm trying to stay positive but it's hard

I'm in this class at school, and 13 of us all have one objective: to get a client and do a communication audit. There's so much work involved, and they're actually paying us $5,000. We don't see the money but it goes into costs of printing the audit book and others. At the end of it all we're going to have 5oo to 800 pages. It's rough, but I hope it's worth it.