Found out my latest grant application did not get funded. In fact it was a resubmission and did worse than last time. I thought I had addressed all the criticisms. I will have to wait until the comments are posted to see what the problems were.

This is one of the problems with research. You cannot do the work unless you have funding. To get the preliminary data to show that the work is feasible and you can do everything proposed you need money. It is chasing ones own tail.