>>Hi Gang!
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>>I was laid off, along with about 115 other people, back on May 20th, 2016. The company I worked for was sold to another company, and as usual, there is attrition.
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>>I have tried looking for work in my local area, but with little .NET experience, and a lot of Visual Foxpro experience (which no one cares for), I am finding it very difficult to find any work. Being 64 with a limited skill set makes me an endangered species.
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>I wonder why so many foxers think their next step should be dot net? If I had to switch to anything, I'd be a DBA. C'mon guys, we're foxers, we know data, we know tables, we'd make great DBAs. Switching to dot net, it would take me the rest of my time before retirement to reach this level of proficiency. Doing SQL, I'd only have to brush up on some unused areas and then be able to code circles around at least half of the admins I've met.

Candidly Dragan, there's more to being a DBA (or a hybrid database developer, as Sergey said).

On the "we know data, we know tables, we'd make great DBAs"....does that mean self-made Access gurus are going to make great DBAs as well?

John Baird is an excellent example of why it pays to learn both .NET "and" SQL Server. He and I were working in Fox in 2003 for a company that went through serious layoffs. He did some major self-study in .NET and SQL Server and got himself a much better job in under a year. And he was older than dirt when that happened. :)

Or if not .NET, at least learn another application development area.