>>Of course, I didn't think about shift work. Yes I'm a customer (never noticed you worked for them). BTW the main AmEx offices for Europe are in my city, Brighton. Sadly they never offered me a job because I had VFp and not VB :-(
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>VFP and VB are 4 GL languages. I have done a lot of work with VB but have more xperience with VFP. VB is like VFP in a way. Just imagine closing both eyes, and typing with one finger. That is VB. :) Oh well, whatever makes management happy.

Of course I know what VB is, and what it's like (I even did a "learn yerself VB" CD from MS once). At the moment I'm programming in MapBasic, a Basic superset for running MapInfo (GIS) applications. It's the same language as VB - but sadly without the "V" - so I have to resort to 1st principles for building dialogues etc., needing to program every control. When I applied to AmEx years ago, though, I had no Basic (except what I'd done on a Commodore Pet!)

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>By the way I start work at 0630 PST.

Ouch! I feel for you. I didn't even know that time existed. Bet you're a barrel of laughs down the pub at night :-)