>I did say that VFP developers should learn .NET in order to expand their skill sets as a hedge against what is becoming a tighter and tighter market.

No John, what you actually said was :-

>>"VFP developers should invest the time to learn and embrace .NET now."

You now add a lot of extra words. Jeez, you crease me <g>.

>then VFP developers should get in lock step with everybody else and expand their skill sets.

Just about every VFP developer I come across is expanding his/her skill-set one way or another - HTML/XML/JavaScript/.Net. Its only you who seems to think they are not.

>The important thing is to expand your skill set to the point that you are not dependant on Fox-only work.

Can't argue with that.

>In some ways, the VB developers are better prepared for .NET than VFP developers. In other ways, Fox developers are better prepared.

Don't sit on the fence John.

>It begs the question of why you had to go to another continent to find Fox work???

Very nice "spin" John, but you know well enough that the point I was making was simply to counter your suggestion that work might only be good in my "neck of the woods". Maybe your geography is not so good John - how close is the Philippines to the UK? In any event, I did not look for this business - it found me.

>One job and your own experience does not a healthy market make.

Whilst this was not the point I made (see my previous paragraph) then don't suppose that you can sum up the whole VFP job market based on your experience.

When you are getting nowhere in a discussion, you jump on any point, twist its original meaning in an attempt to put yourself ahead and then, you start re-iterating things that you didn't actually say in the first place. I've said it before and I'll say it again - you're a card John, a real diamond.

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