I think employers place too much emphasis on past experience. We actually hired someone here and offered to train them in VFP - didn't work out - but that's another story.
Anyway, I hope I didn't sound like I was putting anyone down - just thought it was a little funny the way the original message started out. That's one thing I don't like about text messages - it's hard to communicate the right tone.
>I got my first real programming job during my last year of college. The conversation went something like this:
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>THEM "We use FoxPro here."
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>ME "What is FoxPro?"
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>THEM "A database program."
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>ME "Cool, what language do you program in?"
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>I suppose it's not a terrible question. One could use the DBFs with some other front end. But I was asking it because I had no idea FoxPro was a programming language. And they still hired me. :)
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>Michelle
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>>If you got a job programming and you know nothing about programming, sounds like you should have gone into sales...
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