> Grant Applications: Very specific academic "skill" which is intimately tied to the bureaucracy of the university system of your particular country or region.

> Grant Applications: Very specific academic "skill" which is intimately tied to the bureaucracy of the university system of your particular country or region. It also has a lot to do with things that aren't even in the application: who you know and what they think of you. Honest question: how many grant applications have you written, and to which funding agencies? Your experience does not resemble mine at all.