For a new guy, you best learn the ropes before you decide to go cowboy. Crossfire is a fine member of this forum and you won't have many disagreements with him at all in re: this issue.

Slow down a bit and learn the players or it will come back and bite you in the ass.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward