Thanks. Yes, it is scary. With FoxPro jobs so scarce, and with no other useful experience the past 15 years (the project that did me in was ASP.NET / VB.NET / ADO.NET), it could easily be an extended stretch of unemployment or a career change. And you know how companies are looking for 49 year olds who want to make a career change ;-(

Heavenly Beds are wonderful but it wasn't in the cards last night. One of the two Westins downtown was booked and the other had no rate cheaper than $289 plus tax. That was way too rich for my blood under the circumstances. Not unless Scarlett Johanssen was meeting me there....


>Wow Mike ... that is scary to quit without something else lined up. But, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Good luck to you!
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>Indulge yourself all you want ... those Heavenly Beds are wonderful.
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>~~Bonnie
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>>As discerning readers have noticed, I have been extremely unhappy with my job. Crappy company, crappy project, crappy boss. This morning I quit. Like most of us I am scared of the unknown but it feels so good to shed this job. It's like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. For longer than I care to remember I have hated that job within two steps out of bed every morning.
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>>What's next? No idea. The market is not exactly crawling with FoxPro jobs and that is the only thing I have demonstrable skills for. It's going to be a radical change. But hey, in every catastrophe there is opportunity, right? My two closest coworders said the same thing: this is an opportunity. And I am looking at it that way.
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>>My daughters will not be here this weekend so I am going to indulge myself. I am leaving on the 2:48 train downtown and will revisit the Taste of Chicago. After that, the Westin on Michigan Ave. I could use a heavenly bed.