Denis Brian's biography of Einstein ( http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780471193623-4 ) goes into detail about Einstein's troubles in getting a teaching post--or any other sort of career advancement, post-university.  Essentially, they boiled down to something that is classic about the interactions of many people who are inflicted with what's called "genius" in their intelligence.  Einstein had little patience for those in places of influence who--had he ingratiated himself to them and their egos, which he decidedly did not do--could have and usually in such circumstances would have helped his career along to its next phases.

  But he didn't demonstrate that patience.  He displayed the same blunt and unwelcome frankness common to geniuses' personalities toward these influential people and, stung, they simply shut his advancement off; only much later and with the help of others who were for exrtraneous reasons much more patient and sympathetic, did E. find the support needed to break the effective boycott in academia.

"In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge