Most people face career crises more than once in their lives.
But people also face moments where their employer no longer wants them. They may abruptly be terminated because of company politics, changes in top management, economic upheavals or because they're drifting along in a rut. The plight of the general, who was failing to make a go of a ski resort because no snow fell, made me want to cry. Instead, turn him into secretary of state after he's had a successful lecture circuit tour. Whoops, tack on to the equation that the VP failed to become president.