So many people are so quick to jump on use of mfc... lol I have to use a variety of technologies at my job. We have a large project in MFC, several C# WPF apps, and then many many flavors of embedded applications, some bare metal, and some have OS's (linux, threadX, even GHS integrity). There are even some older 16 bit windows programs that customers STILL use which I refuse to work on... Anyhow, I can most definitely understand how people use MFC still... there is simply no time to convert everything. And if you are adding on to someone else's native project via DLL's, bringing in .NET will cause too many managed-unmanaged transitions and give you a slower end result. Back to your question. I have 2019 installed as well. I have no option for wizard creation of an MFC "console" project. But, I do have one for a Windows console project. I was able to pick this one, it created the project. I then went to project properties and picked "Use MFC" and then I added "#include ", and then I was able to use some MFC. Yes, I agree, it did not do everything for me, but it definitely wasn't that hard... I feel like maybe I had to do this before and they used to have an option for "include MFC headers" when you made a Windows SDK console project. Guess that is gone.

I once had 2 offers at the same time from A & B. I chose A, gave B a chance to barter but they did not. I then started working for A for a month, then B calls me back and wants to offer more money and pleads with me to leave A. At this point, A had already bought me a laptop, and international plane tickets to attend training. So I had to tell B, sorry, you took too long. Company B actually closed shop 3 or 4 years later and I'm still at A. Probably just luck, but I'm going to call it good karma... LOL.

Personally I pay zero. But I have a coworker who paid for a secure memory stick to hold all his passwords. And of course, he lost the password for the secure stick! lol. The sad part is, after 5 unsuccessful attempts at the password, it DELETES the flash memory. He has used 4/5 attempts and it now sits on his desk to haunt him for the rest of his life... lol

Buying on ebay is not really a problem without PP. I have paypal, but I cannot remember the last time I used it (its been over a year) and I buy on ebay A LOT. All you need is a credit card. Might need it for selling though, I'm not sure. Sending money to private parties however, will be more of a challenge, unfortunately. If you have online banking you can use the bill pay to send someone a check... its slower but it works. It has gotten a bit easier for the receiving party in recent years cause they can use their phone to make a deposit with a picture.

My definition is one that can wipe his/her own @#$. lol. I've had that attached to my title since I was 21 years old and still have it some 20+ years later, it means nothing to me whether someone is senior, lev 1, 2 3, etc... or just a plain developer.