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Postdoc repayment agreements; possible to get out of one?

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From: M
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:00
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I am on my second postdoc and want to escape into the real world, but 
there is one small problem.  In order to get this position, I had to sign 
a "repayment agreement".  This must be something new, because I did not 
have to sign one at my first post-doc.  Basically, it states for each 
month I work as a postdoc, up to one year, I incur a liability to repay 
the money should I decide to leave the field and work in something other 
than medical or health related teaching or research.  For each month 
after one year, the liability is removed, until at 2 years, there is no 
repayment liability.  If I were to leave now, after 7 months, I would 
have to repay 7/12 of what I been paid so far, or about $15,000.

So, my question is, does anyone have any experience with this?  Is it 
possbile to get out of it?  I have no interest in doing research any 
more, and teaching would be ok, but finding a job would probably be a 
problem.
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From: anon1167@nyx10.cs.du.edu (M)
Subject: Postdoc repayment agreements; possible to get out of one?
Date: 1996/03/28
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organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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