In a few months I hope to retire from programming, and do something that I like such as teaching music. I look forward to that day. Having spent most of my working days as an electronics engineer I will miss that.

As for programming, it pays the bills and with the new SOX requirements and so on it is becomming more important to fill out reports, charts and graphs then it is to write good code! :)


>Me confused!
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>I talked of getting a toe-hold and getting my teeth in - now you advise wetting my feet! Analogy overload!
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>Cheers Tom :-)
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>>Terry;
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>>About dot Net - I bought several books and the Murach series is what I like the best!!! Visual Studio 2005 is a bit different than the previous versions. Get your feet wet if you want to stay in the software game.
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>>Tom
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>>>>>Despite what you say, Grady, I'm looking for a new job, and there are HARDLY ANY VFP jobs going in this country, AFAIKS, never mind in the area where I live. Software dev. has come to a close in this company, due to govt changes in legislation et al. So it looks like I'll be doing neither foxpro nor dev work at all in the near future.
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>>>>Most of the VFP openings I've seen lately are conversions from VFP to something else (.NET usually). Next week I'm moving to a new contract that is doing exactly that.
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>>>>I see very little for actual VFP development. Sad, but true..
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>>>I must admit to knowing next to nothing of .NET. You? Gaining experience on the job or you already up there?
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>>>What's teh best way to get a toe-hold without there being a requirement to get your teeth in?
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>>>Any input from anyone welcome here or I won't even have a 'puter to post from soon (Did I hear a big HURRAH!?)