Not being able to find work?
He was gainfully employed when he killed himself and had not been terminated.
I’ve been unemployed and know the financial and psychic toll it takes, We’re talking about someone fully employed, facing only the suggestion that he might be replaced at some future date. Someone who was politically connected at the highest levels in the governing party of the state where jobs are routinely found for operatives like him.
There is something more to this story. I don’t know what, but it’s there.