Personally I have little intention to learn another language to the extend I did with VFP. It takes too many years to grow to an expert level,
I'm in my 40-ties and still have about 20 years to go, but am fully occupied with a very large VFP project and we are occasionally searching for a VFP experienced developer.

But the problem for us, is that just a VFP developer does not cut it. First of all it needs to be a skilled one, not the mediocre guys that hop from one (failed) consulting gig to another.

Second the Person needs to have or build up a lot of knowledge of the domain we are active in. Good communicative skills to be able to help a client: not being scared to pick up the phone and dive into an issue. One that goes to the bottom of a problem and finds a solution.

Also, a developer who understands there might be another developer after him looking at his code and needs to understand what is written and why the code is there.

Not a developer who thinks he knows all and trying to force his way through being rude and unable to listen and accept something from others, but one that realises that there is an significant inheritance of codebase and that there are other battles to pick than a variable naming convention to use.

A developer that has a solid understanding and experience of SQL server and writing queries, has understanding of creating statistical reports beyond the simple stuff.

I guess my point is that there are far more importantion aspects than the the programming language. The skill of a programmer is determined by so much more than the languages used. More than once we ended up taking a developer with skills and teaching them VFP.




>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!