Good point. He wants to get another executive position. But is having no luck at that level.
As a CFO, he has accounting skills which could get him into an accounting supervisor or controller type of job. But he apparently feels that this is beneath him. Such jobs might pay in the area of $80K. Which I realize is a big drop from the $200K plus stock options. But the point is, he could find work which would enable him to support the family and pay his bills.
But for whatever reason, he has chosen not to seek lower level jobs in the financial area.
He probably thought that a leftist company would openly embrace him. Under President Bush, they might have had that luxury. Not now in the Obama economy. Most liberal companies have all of the leftys they can use, but if they hire anybody it would be a well connected lib or someone who can run things regardless of their politics. They find that being red is less important than the green. Utopian ideas don’t keep the lights on in most cases.