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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Post-Doc] Would it be bad to leave a lab before fellowship is awarded?

My PI wants me to submit a grant in a few weeks that, if awarded, would cover my salary for the next two years. However, I have been miserable and I'm searching for a job right now. Would it reflect poorly on me to submit this grant and then leave before its awarded?
gpt
I don’t have answers, but some questions that might help you think through this...
* Would the grant follow you to a new location? 
* If it does, would it require you to keep working with your PI on this project? 
* Could you write the grant so it let you stay at the current place but didn’t require you to include your PI? 
* Have you looked up rules about withdrawing your grant application? 
* Edit: If the job would be changing careers (leaving academia), would it even matter if it looked bad to withdraw the grant application?