Walter please take this as a funny reply ;-)

>Let me explain. This is a discussion I had with my business partner. You can hire the best developer in the world, but if it takes 9 months to get up to speed (yes, this what we are looking at) and jumps ship after 12 months, he / she is not a great developer from our perspective.

If that person jump ships after 12 months then perhaps it's because you're a crappy employer :-D

By the way I began working full time as a VFP developer / I.T. support guy. They told me it would take 1 year before being comfortable in their environment. I began working there 3 days a week (from february 2020 to october 2020) and now I'm there full time. (beginning october 2020) Not always easy but I learn very cool things as a VFP developer and as an I.T. guy.

I guess I'll stay there for a while... until there's a better offer :-D