Recommendations to others considering LaTeX:
Feel free to just play around with the software! What I used to do was find a complex mathematical equation and attempt to reproduce it in LaTeX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is LaTeX solving and how is that benefiting you?
Whenever a document needed to have a grade of professionalism a step above WYSIWYG editors, I would always use LaTeX. For example, my first encounter with the software package was in college, when we were putting together a proposal to change a policy at my university. We wrote a PDF of our proposed policy and sent it out to key contacts at the university. It was easily disseminated with minimal error, as formatting would not change depending on the version of Microsoft Word you had installed on your computer. It was a professional document that academics were used to looking at. It has also greatly helped with professional markdowns for documents and deliverables for classes in college. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.