>>>>>Edward, you make a great point...Specialize in a language with lot's of public attention (VB) _and_ competition or one that has less competition, but fewer opportunities? I guess every professional has that kind of dilema. The best advice anyone ever gave me about business was "be flexible!"
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>>>>>...snip...
>>>>>>Yes, there are seas of VB (BTW, not Access anymore) opportunities, but there is ocean of VB propgrammers (thanks God, market levels the field).
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>>>>I like this rumors to keep on going on untill VFP programmers get paid more than Powerbuilder folks. We are almost even.
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>>>>Mo
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>>>That WILL be nice, Mo.
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>>>I have had 2 jobs in the last 6 months re-writing ACCESS programs that couldn't manage to handle the expected workload. One of them was a client who had hired the ACCESS programmers "Because they tell me this will just be cut and paste and they'll have it ready in 2 weeks". They're now using my VFP5 program, after spending 6 months and about $20K on ACCESS.
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>>>People ARE learning what VFP can do, they're just slow to change. That's human nature.
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>>>Barbara
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>>20K over 6 months? sounds like a pay cut to me... hope they weren't working full time on that.
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>Never asked. Probably not, since the client also complained he could never reach them.
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>B
In this case, don't blame Access! :))
Vlad
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