This is a scary time for grant funded employment. I have a grant-funded position, and there’s a constant feeling of dread that the source of the grant will get raided or misappropriated. At least I know that I’m secure until fiscal year 2010! Although there’s always been the prospect of losing the grant, my position has been here a long time, and that helped me make up my mind. Is your position a new one? That might be cause for alarm, as the program has already learned how to function more or less without it.