I agree so much. Over the last several years, I have found it more and more difficult to find VFP position here in Washington State. Last year, with VFP as my most strongest skill, I was unemployed for 6 months. But, now, unemployed again, I am down grading my VFP skills on my resume and placing greater emphasis on my web development, SQL, and my little .NET experience.

The only VFP position I have noticed in my area are those where the company is planning to either upgrade the old DOS Fox program to VFP (which is alright) or are planning to move their existing application out of Fox to a different platform, usually .NET.

This is not the first time in my career I have had to place a skill on the back burner and emphasize skills that are not my strongest to find a job. Years ago, I was vary well at Pascal. Most of the jobs I held were using Pascal. But then Visual Basic and C++ became the language of choose to most of the companies I was applying my resume to. FoxPro 1.0 was just then being release, and dBase was losing creditability.

I am so glad I have had the chance to learn all the various languages I have. Also, all the development cycle skills of design, development, formal testing (thanks John Koziol for believing in me) and deployment. All these skills still help in getting the interviews, which is the hardest part of any job search.

Even though I will always be a fateful FoxPro fan, I must stay with what the industry is expecting is going to be the next big wave. This appears to be .NET bandwagon.

My 2 1/2 cent.

Greg