James,
I have three kids, and I know what you mean!

But I feel relieved when I think how much time I could be wasting if I started to learn VB6 in the past year. Would have to start over again with VB.NET.

I think for our situation we have to find a pretty stable alternative that also has lot of demand in the job market(may be Java?).

What are your thoughts?

--Ahmed Siddiqui