There's also the human side of it.

Since helping our neighbor is embedded in our human DNA, this internal conflict needs to be resolved before you can ever become successful.  

What quality human being is going to work for $5.76 an hour?

I definitely need to practice and get more comfortable with the human interaction stuff.

I also went to El Salvador to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity... another reality check.I am not saying go quit your job and become a monk.

I use a Rumba at home.The lower priced units are louder (whistling noise), and may not have as good of a guidance code as the higher priced units, making them run longer over the same space.The make quiet ones with better guidance systems (extra cost).The ones that do not empty their own trash, will just shut down and sit there, verbally telling you the bin is full.If they get caught up on the edge of a rug, or a sheet hanging down from the bed, they are disabled until a human comes and rescues them.Some do carpets, some do tile floors, some do both.Mission critical cleaning with no human present, seems like it has some risk.Co-cleaning with someone present seems like it works better, due to having someone to rescue it from the dreaded sheet edge hanging off the bed, or the T-shirt on the floor getting stuck in a wheel--and then it's Rumba Code xxxxxx Please Fix Me...For home use, it works great, and the whistle is less loud than a commercial vacuum cleaner.If your lifestyle is more on the messy side, with clutter all over, this is probably not a solution, because it needs to access the floor and cannot move things.For convenience (they dock to charge and memorize where they are at) have one on each floor.Just my 2 cents.

I decided to volunteer with habitat for humanity.

So I called the human resources department of the city that my tenant lives in.

The broker - by definition because they are human - will always think if themselves and their family first.

Sometimes 1 or 2 in what you thought would be your top 3 dissapoints so greatly that you go back and add a 4/5th to interview(I actually found my favorite company because of this).Online reviews can be helpful, but I won't automatically discredit a company solely based on this because negative reviews are more common, generally because of human nature.