>>>I just came across an applicant who seem to know foxpro, but nothing else (no client server or any other vfp musts) he wanted 80K/yr as his base salary.
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>>>Is this where the market is right now?
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>>I had a leaky faucet and called down a plumber who charged me $65 just for coming down. Programmers deserve a lot more than that. They save companies tons of money by automating procedures.
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>Thanks for saying this, so I didn't have to say it myself.
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>Printed and duly posted above my monitor, for whomever it may concern.


People keep forgetting that programmers have to constantly keep updating themselves. By the time they are comfortable with VFP5, VFP6 is out. Then the company brings in SQL Server, Crystal reports, ASP, RDO, ADO, XML and all those other three-letter MS$ technologies. Then some may want to introduce VB6 as my company did because they could not find any VFP programmers out there when they needed one. Then Microsoft tells them, VFP is not enough for you - you must have Visual Studio. How many accountants spend their off time on the Universal Thread - trying to learn more and more and more... cause if you don't you are history.