For the past couple of weeks, I've been a beginner-intermediate mechanic trying to breathe life into an aging car. Sometime in the next few months, I've to tro

For the past couple of weeks, I've been a beginner-intermediate mechanic trying to breathe life into an aging car. Sometime in the next few months, I've to troubleshoot and fix the broken 2 yr. old refrigerator. Someone came and fixed it once, now it's out of warranty and fixing it would cost about 50% of its cost. Meanwhile I'm glad I didn't throw away the 10 yr old refrigerator and just moved it to the garage. We just have to keep going to the garage. I also have to play the accountant for my consulting business pretty soon. This is a task I had outsourced for years and have now started doing myself. As stuff gets more specialized, I've started noticing that I'm able to do moderately complicated things better than professionals paid at the 50th - 70th percentile. If I want to get a really good job done, my rule of thumb is to be ready to shell out money in the 90th percentile range and look for references. In case of AWS, I guess the Greasemonkey scripts are getting too complicated ;)?