"Also, just what do you think MY purposes are!?"

I do not discuss any members of the Forum personally, nor their purposes. I prefer discussing situations.

Sorry to hear about your experience and vain efforts. But all people are not the same, even is they share the same "technical " parameters, such as age, location and the like. It is wrong to make conclusions of the whole group based on one person.

As an example I can tell you one funny story. One office had a problem with its employee who did sewing during her working hours instead of her job responsibilities. They fired her eventually. But when they were searching for a new candidate for that job they asked this quesion at the interview - if the candidate could sew, as they were afraid of reoccurance of the story. Do you think it smart?