I'm with Rod. Learn a database and then learn .NET I have 15 years of experience (80% with VFP), I have more trouble finding job because VFP is less in demand and that I do not have enough experience with other tools that VFP.

VFP was not my choice, my first job was in VFP and I kept having jobs mainly in VFP after that. If I had a chance to go back, I definitly would have spend more time learning another tool.

My 0.02 cents.

>I am in a rut, I am still a relative newbie (4 years real experience, 90% with Visual FoxPro). I can do about anything capable with fox, it is a great language but like latin, no matter how eloquent the language, it is a dead one. MS is letting it die a slow death and I prefer not to ride it to it's grave. I want to learn so new technologies and languages but having trouble deciding where to start. It seems like most of the choices lock you into a fixed path. I Java doesn't seem like it will be around for long, Unix is a bit too arcane, .net, oh .net, where can I begin?, and C++ just doesn't seem very productive. I might have it all wrong, if I do please set me straight. Any advice?