You made a post titled "advice" not a post titled "ask me more questions," and people have given you some sound advice here. I agree with others that kb's advice is spot on. This is not because he has "x" numbers of followers, it's because he has some perspective. I've been where you are at, I wasn't sure if I should take a job out of college managing a fine-dining restaurant because I didn't know if that's what I wanted to do with my life. Guess what? I took the job and the experience led to a job selling restaurant supplies and equipment, which led to a better job selling restaurant supplies, which led to me going back to school and getting a business degree so that I could transition in to selling in the finance world. -You never know where life will take you. My guess is that even if I didn't take the first job, I'd be in a similar place now based on my skill sets.

Take the gig, KB is also right that it's soooo much easier to find a job when you have one. This was my first concern with insomniasexx quitting her job recently. Then after talking with her I realized she had a good plan in place and I rest assured.

As for the "power user" thing, I may have a lot of followers but the minute I'm am asshole that won't matter. Much like on twitter, if someone sucks they can be filtered out of your experience. I really do think the "power user" phenomenon is diminished here. Think about it, eightbitsamurai has in a short time garnered great favor and praise in this community because of great comments and posts. Is he a power user? I guess I don't really understand the fear or disdain for a "power user" as it relates to the architecture here.

As for KB being in touch with the admins, aside from he and I being friendly off Hubski via texts and email (mostly about family, music, and writing) all of his advice about Hubski are public record and are given alongside the advice from other users. If a suggestion from him or anyone else is ever adopted, it's done so based on the merit of the proposal and not the "power" of the user. This plays zero role in anything g we do to the site. That said, I think KB is a fantastic contributor to the community and many of his suggestions have been adopted because they're good ideas. Also, I think he put some thought in to the advice you asked for and I'm not sure why you are upset about it? Maybe you're not and I'm just reading this wrong.

Anyways, good luck no matter what you decide.

On a sidenote, my grandparents paid for me to go to Catholic school growing up. It was expensive and my parents didn't have much money. I was certainly the kid that could never buy nice clothes, didn't drive a fancy car and didn't even have enough lunch money a lot of days. It's now the fuel that drives me. Use it.