I was one of the ones that didn't play the political game right (choosing mentors, proper faculty appts etc) so my grant got tossed aside (triaged). Then the

I was one of the ones that didn't play the political game right (choosing mentors, proper faculty appts etc) so my grant got tossed aside (triaged). Then the choice is to either do another 5 years as essentially a post-doc while the chairman grumbles that you're costing his department money, vs. going into practice and making double what the NIH protected salary would be for a K grant, and the choice was clear.