On a per individual basis, I think most individuals would prefer to overpay mortgage fees slightly rather than lose the entirety of the money they wire.

Upvoted for Ocaml. They are making progress on using on Windows.

I know accountants who work between 80 and 100 hours a week for 3 months every year. Is it miserable? Yes. Is it impossible to work that number of hours and turn out quality work? I don't think so.

And the Richest Man in Babylon.

Here, desktop for online services, flip phone when traveling, VOIP for most phone usage.

Coiled, coil held with twist tie/s depending on size of coil, in one of several boxes depending on type, boxes on closet shelf above server and network equipment, closet in office behind desk, office in west end of home.

I spend a lot of time in Nitro PDF. The feature set I use is comparable to Adobe. We switched for better price with perpetual license and preferred interface (ribbon vs. whatever Adobe's is called).

https://www.gonitro.com/

Wow. Ribbon and preferred interface in the same sentence.

By the way, NitroPDF is great.

Worked at nitro. Looking like MS office with the ribbon gui sold a lot of licenses. Users don’t want to learn Adobe’s ui.

We spend our days in a Microsoft world, the ribbon is familiar. I'd be happy if it was more keyboard driven but most others would complain.

I never wanted a desk job, but health and economics said otherwise. I did ease into it over several years and have gotten more used to it. It took a few years to get used to less "people time". Going from working on two to five man crews to sitting in an office by myself did weird (and not good weird) things to my head. It didn't help that I tried sales for the first year or so and that was emphatically not a good fit. That's a long ramble, just saying I've been there. Since you have the GI bill it might be worth trying something else. Or perhaps you are like me and want something else once you master the challenge in front of you.

Check out land surveying. Haven't done it but it looks interesting from the outside, good mix of inside research and outside work.

Another reply mentioned engineering. I met a man who had been a site engineer, responsible to make sure construction projects were accomplished according to plan.

When you find the answer we'd love to hear.

Surveying has become increasingly computerized, so your software experience could be very useful. You would need to take a university course to become a registered surveyor. The earnings are good as well.

From second hand experience, software experience is very helpful for automating parts of land surveying. The licensing is a pain though.

The university is part of the reason I have not done more than look in from the outside. With no credits at this point and a life and family to support it isn't a great time for a change.

Along with that, ask the charity what percentage of donated funds go to the cause or what percentage is used for overhead.

Saturday:

  Milk new cow
  Keep working on fixing my pickup
  Move cattle fence
  Feed bees - *didn't get this done*
  Study for church responsibilities tomorrow

Sunday:

  Church
  Keep my son occupied for the day, solo since my wife is away
  Go to nursing home to sing
  Read for a few minutes
  Maybe visit my parents

How do you feed bees?

Sugar water. The ph isn't perfect but it beats having them starve over the winter from not having enough honey. Some of the big producers will feed sugar water or high fructose corn syrup and sell the result as honey, from what I hear.

As far as the mechanics, this time of year 2:1 or so sugar to water. Sometimes you can open feed in barrels or buckets with a float of some sort for the bees to land on. You can also put various containers in the hive. Sometimes I open feed, but this time will put a sealed, inverted jar or bucket in the hive on top of the frames of honeycomb. A few tiny holes to allow droplets retained by surface tension to form and the bees will happily store it away for the winter.