It takes a specified number of years and a specified amount of coursework and a board, and it can be taken away from you in an afternoon by one person, and it is the only professional thing I have ever cared about.

Now.

Dupont Enterprise Group holds federal contracts.

Not mine.

Not ones I awarded or administered — and I want to say clearly, here and at the front, that I had known that from the beginning and had built a wall around it in 2021 before I married him.

His company’s federal work is in a different commodity area and, for the most part, a different region, and I had never had a DEG file on my desk, and I had told my supervisor about the marriage in 2021, and I had listed it on my financial disclosure form every single year.