I walked away from the university research world. I think about the projects I left behind nearly every day. My key project took 5 years and I felt that everyth

I walked away from the university research world. I think about the projects I left behind nearly every day. My key project took 5 years and I felt that everything had happened too slowly to be worthwhile. How wrong I was: I finally had the work published in 2017 after it had sat in a drawer for 17 years. But now I am too long away from the research community to attract grants. The best thing I could have done at the crisis point would have been to have gotten help from others in the field. My advice is, "Don't quit. Ask for help."