Man he ' s lucky his huge balls didnt weight him down too much <| sep |> Okay , let me know when your online . <| sep |> I ' m going to make a point that ' s probably going to be exceedingly obvious to you as someone who is used to working on grant applications , but I think this point is worth making since you and uOrbitalPete seem to be talking in circles around one another . Grants aren ' t awarded primarily on the basis of paying someone a salary . They are awarded to support ie fund research that will make significant advances in a particular field . So , if you want a grant , you need to make a strong case that you are doing research that is going to make significant advances in a field . If your work is primarily technical , it seems to me that you have two options A Find an appropriate grant body and write an application for a grant for research that makes a significant contribution to your technical field . Maybe you want to work on a new algorithm that will improve the efficiency of a specific type of scientific modelling . Maybe you want to design new software that will help researchers doing a specific type of work . I don ' t know how easy it is to find such grants , but it may be worth looking around if you ' re looking to make an individual application . B As others have suggested , find someone who works in a nontechnical field who needs your technical knowledge and write a grant application together for research in their nontechnical field .