Also a lot of these jobs are not abundant in the private sector. Economists, scientists, foresters, meteorologists. There is stuff that the fed govt was doing for our benefit on a scale that the private economy and academia can’t absorb, especially in this economic uncertainty
*Seriously*
YUP. No industry is going to pay any more for water quality monitoring than they absolutely have to, because that monitoring sometimes means they have to spend money to clean up their act. So WTF is a hydrologist supposed to do? I've got backups, but many of them are also dependent on fed funds...
I’m sorry you are dealing with that. Feel for all of you
...especially since the other thing I'm any good at is teaching.