20 years of Linux and I finally started using job control

I have been using Linux since before I owned my own computer, and for much of that time, have been comfortable with the command line (I'm a computer programmer, after all; though not a particularly fancy one).I have always been annoyed that Ctrl+Z doesn’t work in terminal (not to mention, Ctrl+S, and all other table-stakes keybindings. Keybindings should be universal, man!). I knew, vaguely, what it did. It didn't sound interesting to me.I slowly warmed up to GNU readline keybindings. They’re not as good as universal keybindings, but I sure miss them when they're gone, and now I've started using them when I write TUI dashboards. And I spend my time in a console text editor, in a non-standard shell, in tmux. Which is just to say, I'm not a complete rube.But, job control? “Wuts job control?” said the self-styled CLI enthusiast. I knew, vaguely, that jobs could be backgrounded (whatever that meant), but I frankly didn't see the point. If you need to run something in the background, just…