Me and my wife have holidayed a couple of times in the Dominican Republic. Lovely part of the world. 
As to your point no.7 that always gives a warm glow!
Well, at the risk of tooting my own horn, I have a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Manchester here in the UK. But you sir, and some other developers on here are ahead of me when it comes to many aspects of mobile development. My passion and expertise was formerly software rendering. At one time I had much of the OpenGL calls mimicked in software. Now I can barely recall how to render a textured triangle or camera/view frustum transformations. My new passion as I have reached 50 is in reading novels by the greats - Dickens, Brontes, Austen, Kafka, Hardy, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and the like. My days of coding low level graphics are long gone!
I’ve been in mobile since 2013 using Corona/Solar 2D and have yet to earn any real money. Not so smart after all! 