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I’m testing to see how my albino rat icon looks on PWF. It’s the same rat that you know and love that was on FW.

Putting $2,400 into retirement savings a year isn’t much, especially considering traditional pensions are basically non-existent. I don’t think such a draconian change will be made, but who knows. Our crooked politicians are probably thinking of doing this, as many retirement savers don’t think things out. If people are averaging $10,000 a year in contributions now, and all of a sudden can only contribute $2,400, their paychecks will go up $7,600 a year (minus taxes). Many people will think they’re flush with new money, and start blowing it on junk they don’t need, instead of saving it for retirement elsewhere.

I made a $10 purchase of bitcoin as a test. The $10 got me 0.00119335 bitcoin at about $8,379. I checked the current price on Coinbase at as close to the same time as this transaction, at it was $8,343. While they say there is no transaction fee, it looks like they take a bit of a spread.

I probably won’t be doing much, if any, crypto stuff on Robinhood, but it’s nice that’s it’s available.

I live for this day. You have my permission to take off from work and not tell the boss.

@tjtv I’ve also looked at this as the ultimate bargain for an employer. Instead of all the costs in providing traditional pensions, just add 5% to employee salaries for 401k matches, with no other costs or liabilities.

Agree with the above comments. My suggestion is to stay employed, hopefully in the IT field as you complete a degree, if possible. My feeling is dropping out of the workforce as you pursue your education leaves you at risk of a possible poor economy in a couple years. It’s hard to predict what the economy and jobs will be like down the road. If you were younger, then a traditional full-time school schedule might be better.

As far as IT, see if you can intern and/or get tours and advice from some local IT companies. Maybe there’s a Microsoft, Google or Facebook office nearby. Expand your programming experience beyond JavaScript. My suggestion is know Visual Studio well, using stuff like aspx.net, C#, MVC, etc. Know a relational database (SQL and SQL server) and how to build apps that connect with it. Although I don’t like the product, know advanced features of SharePoint and its administrator functions.

Good luck.