Becoming complacent in IT is suicidal for your career in IT IMHO. When you feel that you no longer have the will to learn new stuff, then it may be time to start looking for an alternative career.

I'm still in the process of learning .NET and it's not easy. There's plenty of area that I haven't touch yet (WPF, LINQ, web, etc.) I try to use only the basic stuff at first and build from there. Otherwise it's easy to get drown in the massive new stuff that you have to learn when you're coming from a VFP background.

Good luck.

>It's helping me to hear these things. A person can get discouraged when the doors to opportunity seem to shut repeatedly. At first, I wasn't sure if .NET was going to fly and really didn't check it out on the Internet with web sites such as Dice, Monster or Indeed. But, recently, I wanted to know how .NET opportunities were doing. Once I checked it out, a more vivid and positive picture formed making it clear that you can't go wrong with it. I had my first C# class around 2002-2003. It seemed like a clumsy product back then, but it is much difference now with all of the improvements to the language and classes.
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>In the years 2004-2008, because I had a supposed "permanent" job, and the money was coming in and things were good, I stupidly became complacent. Then the California economy went south with its real estate, housing and other industries, which put my company in the red (my former company makes stucco wire, and other wire products) ; they had to make drastic cuts in order to survive. They are still struggling and are not back financially to the early days of 2002 through 2004. Complacency!
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>Time to get up, dust off and get going! I suppose if others my age and older can do it, I can too.