Dude, you need to let people who are paid less than you to do menial tasks like this. Seriously.

Unless someone spelled "pew" differently.

I second this. I'm in a specialty like OP, embedded software in C/C++. Like OP I've been feeling the heat due to economic slowdown, defense cuts, sequestration, etc.
After looking into switching software fields to web/database I decided to stick with embedded. The fact is that there is still a demand for embedded software and I'd have to take a significant pay cut to switch out of it. I guess it boils down to if you want more *perceived* job security at lower pay or to take your chances at higher pay.

From 1978-2012, "12 fold" i.e. 1200%:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-15/cost-of-college-degree-in-u-s-soars-12-fold-chart-of-the-day.html

This one only goes back to 1985 and shows "only" a 485% increase to 2011:
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_articles/Education_Inflation.asp

How about the federal government and higher education address the root causes that contributed to a 1000% increase in tuition and fees since 1980?
Low cost federally subsidized student loans are a major part of this problem. It's bad enough that this is a huge overstepping of federal authority. The availablility of billions of dollars of cheap money has fueled the fire of educational hyperinflation. Take away the cheap money - tuitions go down.
Maybe more people in Congress should go take EC101 again (for the first time).

FTFY

#2: Use it as leverage at review time

Things like this are opportunities, not burdens.

Italy is notorious for its culture of tax evasion and insane driving.
In a country where almost no one pays their taxes (rendering it unenforceable) why pay fines too?

Maybe if you're old.

Oh, that's just dog shit on my shoe.

1) Go to "Account Settings"
2) Press "Deactivate you account"
3) Get an effin' life.

I don't think so. Sure, he's a smart guy, but 99.999% of his success came from being at the right place at the right time.
i.e. writing DOS just as IBM entered the PC market. The rest is history.

Subcommander Tal, is that you?

and stuff.

What could possibly go wrong?