User blog comment:Pvg3/Am I the only spouse who is about to have a breakdown if her husband doesn't get a job?/@comment-24.255.40.140-20100429174119

I got knocked out of the job track when I had to stop my dissertation in order to care for dying family members. Finished the dissertation, applied for jobs, was told I was too old and wouldn't fit in. Got the dissertation published. Got a federal job only to learn that it was a scam - lost the job. Went to work as a computer tech. Big lawsuit payoff from the federal job. And now, 15 years later, looking for work as an historian again. Too old, won't be a good fit, too much competition - but at least enough money in the bank to hang on. If being an historian is what you really want to do, you have to try to do it. Support yourself any other way you need to, but keep trying - because you have to.