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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spouse hasn't even started to look.  The months before he took Fork 2 were emotional torture and a roller coaster as he watched the agency he dedicated himself to for 33 years go into the crapper.  Being "voluntarily" forced out in his mid-50's devastated us financially and our plans for the future are completely out the window.  It's been a shock, a huge one.

I am anxious because of course he needs a job.  But he's paralyzed, depressed, and despairing.

So no.  No job.  [/quote]

I'm so sorry. It's very tough when you're pushed out at that age, and even more so when your life's work is being actively destroyed. At NIH people are suicidal. Some labs don't have money to keep their research, because so much of it is delicate: in vials of deep-frozen DNA, or kept alive in petri dishes or animal models. Imagine spending 20 years of your life working on cancer pathways in a model organism and not having the funds to even preserve your own results.

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It's infinitely heartbreaking and infuriating.  We need those scientists and that research.  I am so sorry.

My DH is day drinking now.  In secret.  [/quote]

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