Tell ya what, BEG . . . just copy my choices. 
You're ex-military; you'd know this stuff.
As I like to maintain rigorous accuracy when giving the background of winners of the Top DUmmies, naturally I've been looking into the potential winners, to see what I can discern of their socioeconomic status.
The
yenta's a problem. Apparently she lives in an "average," or perhaps even "a little bit less than average," neighborhood in San Diego. Say, a place that was once "trendy," but now's slowly slipping down. Not a bad place, but a place that's seen some better days.
As you know, I have nothing but the utmost respect for the
yenta's husband; no doubt he's a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet. And probably he has no idea, no idea at all, what his wife's up to, that makes he himself look bad.
Her husband once directed submarines through treacherous waters, for which we thank him; he attained the highest rank (E-8; I have no idea what that means) that a non-commissioned officer in the Navy can get, and as it appears to have been a pretty high rank, one assumes he retired with a reasonably good pension.
So the
yenta has the opportunity to luxuriate, on this pension--if he does in fact get one--rather than getting callouses on her hands from honest labor.
Too, her husband works for the post office. He's not the postmaster of San Diego, but it's reasonable to assume he's much more than just a mailman or counter-clerk or mail-sorter. After all, his years in the Navy gave him much education, experience, and skills that would be wasted doing that.....and so one assumes he's somewhere in between the postmaster and the front-desk people at the post office.
Which further frees the
yenta from having to fray her fingernails doing honest work.
There might be other benefits of being ex-military and in a reasonably high-level job in San Diego, but I have no idea what those might be--other than if they're there, the
yenta takes full advantage of them, to the hilt.
One can only speculate, but what might those be?
My own expertise in this area is rather limited. The neighbor was in the Air Force National Guard for some years, and says the only benefit he got from it--other than, of course, maturity and doing his duty--was that his college degree (B.S. in mathematics) was nearly all paid for. He was always going to be a farmer anyway, but had this fringe benefit--paid college education--and so took it for fun, before he had to hunker down and work.
The senior business associate was in the Navy, active duty, six years, during the 1990s, and says the only benefit he got from it--other than, of course, maturity and doing his duty--was that his college degree (B.S. in accounting) was nearly all paid for.
But these are Nebraskans we're talking about; other than greedy union members in Omaha, Nebraskans tend not to be avaricious, not to grab as much as they can as fast as they can.
So one
assumes that while the
yenta's not among the Country Club set in San Diego, she's not among the trailer-courters either.....but she is closer to the County Club set than she is to the other end of the socioeconomic spectrum.
Any illumination you can give me, sir, would be appreciated.
