Even "properly" can be stressful. If anything, "improperly" is the least stressful. It's not the technical work, it's that 1 in 10 jackass you're required to work with every now and again to accomplish something, whether it's in your group, company, or anywhere else. I believe that falls under what he described as "politics" (and just for the record, what Nickodeemus described is exactly what I deal with on a daily basis). I have the best bosses and greatest coworkers in the world, but at the end of the day, we're not a silo. We have to interface with other organizations, other companies, and any number of things on the outside world. Not everyone agrees with everything you want to do or claim to need, because at the end of the day, they're in business to make money, just like your company. It sucks, but it's the price of doing business, and THAT is part of where better wages come into play. You're not compensated that much to sit there while everything is peachy keen. In so many words, you're compensated in return for them slowly killing you with doses of stress.

If this were the case, then how much are being held in deposits would not be seen as a negative factor. The fact of the matter is, gauging how much people are saving, and not spending by showing the ratio of deposits versus circulation shows whether the economy is slowing or speeding. When you save, that's not a form of investment. Exactly the opposite actually. When investors withhold money to savings, it's because they don't trust the market to invest in it because they don't feel the outcome will be positive. After all, why would I invest money knowing ahead of time there is a good possibility of negative return? The economy doesn't grow when you're holding on to all of your money. How could it?

Actually.....the 1.2 GHz D-Star modules (the ID-1 for example), will give you the equivalent of ISDN connectivity.