While you may feel more comfortable working with the more limited privileges of a normal rather than admin user, does that improve security?
admin user
A helping hand for those who run in normal user mode and cannot access log contents as a result.
When should you create a new user, and how should you delete them?
To OS X’s Unix heart, you are not a name but a user ID. The first admin user account is 501, and something rather special.
My iTunes Music folder did not migrate properly to my new Mac. How can I fix it?
The Eclectic Light Company 