>Hi all,
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>I'm curious how many of you have no interest in learning a new language and want to end your career with foxpro. As for myself, unfortunately at the job that I just quit this January I worked strictly with Visual Foxpro and mostly foxpro data with some sql server so it was basically a career killer job, now I'm going back to do some work with my old clients which is strictly VFP 9 and SQL Server. I quit because I'm getting into real estate and have no desire to learn any new programming languages anymore, wouldn't mind some "gigs" programming in foxpro as side work to supplement my real estate (which I'm doing now with my old clients).
>Since I'm single and probably can get away with managing my real estate remotely my options are open to travel anywhere.
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>- How many of you are in the same position?
>- What are the prospects for foxpro consulting?
>- What hourly rate are you guys seeing for this? (for my old clients I kept the old hourly rates that I had with them 8 years ago, not sure what is the market right now)
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>Thanks!

I think I'm pretty much in the same position right now. The last several times I've got a job with VFP - I've told myself that this will be the last chance I get to have a job using VFP and that I need to start to learn something else. My current job was only supposed to be a 6 month contract to maintain their VFP app while they migrate to something else. Uhhh that was 7 years ago. I guess that had some failures and issues trying to get a new system in place. Well now they have finally got the new system in place, and I've been told I got till the end of march. In the meantime there isn't a great amount of stuff for me to do, so last week they told me to start watching asp.net mvc training videos. I've never been paid to watch training videos..and I've never tried to learn a new language by watching videos either - so we'll see how this goes. As for the prospects of VFP consulting - it looks pretty bleek to me. There just are not that many using VFP anymore - and those that are either have something that is stable and need to help with it, or just want to get rid of it and move to something web-based. As for hourly rates it seems to be all over the place - but I think its gone down a fair amount over the past 10 or 15 years for VFP developers. You could probably get away with making VFP consulting a side-gig to make some extra income - but I doubt you'd be able to do it and nothing else and find enough work to keep you busy enough to make it the only source of income. That is just my opinion though - hopefully others with reply.