"In my time working as a researcher in the public sector, a majority of the funding came through grants. In working with a state farming agency on researching safe and effective pesticides, I was tasked by a senator to help find a environmentally safe alternative to keepin agway beetles away from local crops in the state. In promising a solution, my first task was to look into grant money through the state and federal governments. I worked diligently in writing many grant proposals over the next month and this was a hindrance to the current project I was working on. I took extra office time each week to prepare the grant proposals and, in the end, I received a generous grant to begin the project. Over the next two years, my team and I helped develop on of the safest pesticides that is used in the farming industry today."