Michelle,

I'm so happy for you!

Hopefully you will like this new company and will be happy and grow in your knowledge and experience. I hope also that the salary and commuting distance are good for you.

I'm sure they're glad to find a Fox developer close to home and not have to pay a big relocation fee!



>UPDATE
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>Well, it looks like I'll be staying with VFP after all. I found a job with a local company that uses it. I appreciate all the advice and will be sure to come back to it if I ever find myself in this position again.
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>So many people replied to this and I've lost track of who was talking to me and who was talking on a sub thread. So I'm going to do what I rarely ever do and CC this to all since I'm thanking everyone. If you're someone from a sub thread, please accept my apologies and delete it. There's no need to make another post telling me not to reply to all. :)
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>Again, thanks everyone for your help. I really appreciate how everyone jumped in to try and help me.
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>Michelle
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>My original message:
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>>Hi everybody. I haven't been around in a while. I did something really stupid. I left a good, comfortable job to take a chance on what seemed like a dream job. It turned out to be a nightmare.
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>>So, now I'm unemployed. There isn't a big FoxPro market in my area, so I'm going to have to find some new skills. Most comapnies around here do Visual Basic or C++. I think I'd have a better chance teaching myself VB, so that's the direction I'm headed.
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>>What I'm posting this for is to see if anyone has any suggestions on the best way to get up to speed in VB in a short amount of time. My husband has a couple VB5 books. Is VB6 close enough to 5 that they're usable, or do I need to get something more recent? Any good books for people that already know a visual language?
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>>I know any search engine would turn up thousands of VB resources, but I'm coming here because I want the opinion of fellow Foxers, not some reviewer that thinks VB is the be all and end all of languages. I know, first thing I need to do is lose the negative attitude towards VB. :)
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>>Any (helpful) suggestions on what I should do, VB or other, would be appreciated. I don't have much in savings, so whatever I do I need to do quick.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Michelle