>Not to be argumental but inquisitive: If large companies using FP/VFP NEVER advertise (not just in paper but via other media like web), how do you find them?
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>Again, your looking at this from a consultant's view. Before I joined my current company, I also briefly worked for a small consulting company. The pay was good and even offered to increase my pay when I worked there only few weeks when I told them I would be leaving. The reason I left was most of the work involved Y2K-ing old AccountMate accounting Foxpro DOS programs and other enhancements with very few VFP projects. This was precisely why I left the previous company before.
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>>In the Minneapolis area, there are many large companies using FP/VFP( and of course programmers) that NEVER advertise in the paper. If one looks in the want ads, VFP doesn't exist, yet I work in a shop with 8 VFP developers, most contractors like me, making at least as much, if not more, than the VB guys. I have a friend on a multi year(that's year not week) contract making 100.00 an hour, pure VFP. You gotta look for this stuff, not expect corporations to track you down begging. Yes, we have a PR battle VB doesn't, but we have a better tool in most cases. If MS would just make VFP a better COM and Windows tool, we could steal tons of VB business.
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>>Gary Foster
>>Pointsource Consulting Inc.

Most people find work either through the contracting firms here or by going directly to firms they know use VFP. It might seem like kind of an underground sort of thing I suppose to new arrivals, but that seemes to be a local tendency in many things here, e.g., City hall downtown is unmarked in any way, no signs, not even an address number on a wall. Your supposed to just 'know' that the dirty, unmarked building is where you go to get permits, etc. Yeah, my perspective is consulting, I like it much better that being an employee. I've been very fortunate to have work that pushes the VFP envelope constantly.