Hello BHW. First and foremost, thanks for the wealth of knowledge you all provide. I have been working the same job for 10 years, making 52k, I spend about 2 hours of my 10 hour shift hammering out the work expected of me. The other 7 hours are spent internetting, foruming, trolling and wasting about 1800 hours a year being non productive. I have been organizing techniques and opinions on IM for a few months now, looking for my cherry popper, I believe it is time to get my feet wet, and get the **** out of this place. 
