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Article: Changing course: Many people are trading in their titles, and launching new careers as entrepreneurs.(Brief Article)
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- Northern Ontario Business
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- December 1, 2001
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Robyn Thompson thought she had it made with a federal job for life. After leaving her native Newfoundland for what she believed was a more politically secure position at the Chalk River national forestry lab, the computer programmer received a rude awakening one day when Cttawa decided to hand out pink slips.
Thompson and her husband, Ian, a research scientist, were among the casualties in the wave of bureaucratic layoffs and institutional closures in the mid-1990s.
"I was only there four years and they closed the place," says Thompson, now 46, sounding as dumbfounded as that morning when staff went to work and received notice that their facility would ...