Same here about the cheapness factor and I think it stems from a battling childhood :)
In some ways it is time wasted, but I am guessing that in those three months, you aren't going to be sitting around idle,
That's why I sai that there is a time and a place for everything. It is obviously planned for me to discover other contributing factors during the waiting period. And you are right, in our work one is never idle :)
So true about the job, as no job cannot even be considered.
My concern is that we have only one income stream and I have to develop others.