It’s a bigger question though that the benefits. For instance, Education pays slave wages, while Business Services tends to pay very well - far in excess of Education-to-Benefits vs Business-Services-to-Benefits difference in raw cash

Been there and got stung way too many times. Gotta love how the phone operators never give out enough info to refer to them - “yeah, it’s Bob, there’s only one Bob so they’ll know who.”. Then you call, and “sorry there’s no Bob, and no notes on your account. Will you be paying by credit card today?”

Well, all I can say is all y’all are getting varnished coming and going on credit. Seriously - you can’t get a credit rating without carrying SOME balance on credit cards (go ahead and try), you can’t get a home without a credit rating.

Best first language to me were (don’t laugh): vbscript/vba,javascript Delphi, and Groovy.

To a point, I have to agree with you - understanding the basic idea of development to me, is more important than knowing all the intricacies of a language. I would add though that once you are “proficient” in more than one development language, new languages become that much easier to get onboard.

See this is where I get my hackles up. Why should you be less of a risk because you paid $20 more than I did?

Taking a long time IF the result is higher security for me and my family is fine. But typically... it’s not. It’s been shown and proven time and again that they don’t have a clue.

Sure, as long as I get the same courtesy...

It doesn’t always apply though... I see homes in our area valued at 500k+ which rent for 1800 a month, and it takes quite a while to find a renter it seems.

That’s Jim. He identifies as a freight train. How lame of ye not to notice the two fetching females, Jack and John, who both identify as Pink Elephants, were at the top of the bracket?

I agree, but it’s not the only thing to think about. In our case, our kids are in their late teens and my wife and I fell in love with the area (a historic area with houses as old as the 1800's and newer houses are early 1900's, which is our ideal time period). Rent was high because, guess what, all the houses were…

Wait, what... he’s doing overtime, not being paid for it, but the company he works for is billing the government? That sounds like fraud to me, mail fraud if they mail the invoice...