This is gonna sound dumb to a lot of you but Rock Island Wisconsin. It's a small island in lake Michigan that was originally a rich inventor's vacation retreat and has since been made into a state park. The summers are hot but the lake is nice for swimming in. There's some beautiful scenery, good fishing, it's close enough to civilization that you can go shopping or catch a movie with only a few hours travel. The winters aren't too severe. I would quite happily live in a tent there for the rest of my life if I could.

By Teddy Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

I fix big expensive electronic things. I love my job.

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I have what most would consider a "blue collar" job fixing electronic things, I use algebra every day. I would say it is only necessary if you want to be able to compete in a difficult job market. If you know what career you are going to be in for the rest of your life AND you know that you can get into that career without having to compete against anybody else then I would ignore it. But you'd better be sure...

I just want it to not be horrifically painful. That's all I ask.