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By grad school, the professors were starting to warn us. Academic jobs were becoming much more competitive, as far more scientists were trained than could be hired. The work of science institutes was farmed out to contractors, and their budgets gradually dwindled also. But I had discovered in myself a love of teaching as well as research; on fire with ‘science evangelism’, I meant to persist and succeed. After all, once I reached the apex of tenure, I could pursue the dream to heart’s content.