⟩ Tell me what was the worst thing that you’ve experienced on the job. Did it make you wonder if you should change professions?
The worst thing was completely bureaucratic – the agonizing uncertainty of the RIF in 1995 within the USGS Geologic Division (eds. note: in 1995, about 500 employees from the Geologic Division of the USGS, or 20% of it’s workforce, lost their jobs).