Well it's Friday and I don't feel much like being productive, so I thought I'd share some news....
My employer doesn't know it yet (giving notice on Monday) but I'm leaving here and going across town to become a foxpro developer once again <insert sigh of relief here>. Did some consulting work for these folks about 4 years ago and tried to talk them into creating a job for me and they wouldn't do it... then a while back they called me up and told me about an opening for a programmer, we haggled a bit, and here we are.... I start the new gig on Aug 18th. I thought I was something of a computer expert 3 years ago when I first started here, but in reality I didn't know nuthin'.... I've learned SO much here at Bike Friday - it's amazing what you can get these machines to do if you know what you are doing (or are forced to do it)... <g> Linux, PHP, server admin, networking, messing around with hardware... this has been a classic example of the more I know, the more I realize that I don't know... oh, and I got to ride my bike a lot... <g> I'm not looking forward to sitting down with my boss to have The Talk... this place is going to go into cardiac arrest after that and I fully expect to have him hound me night/day/weekends while I'm still around, and quite possibly after I'm gone. The good news is that my predecessor, whom I still have doing consulting work, will at least be around to help them out and/or find a replacement assuming we don't come up with someone in my 3 remaining weeks. It's just been too much damn stress around here doing what amounts to 5 different jobs... I'm not going to whine about it and say "whoa is me" - I knew (for the most part) exactly what I was getting in to when I took this job 3 years ago. I've managed to lurk on this list for 3 years and pay casual attention to what's going on... Some of you may remember how I blasted you guys as idiots for sticking around w/ VFP when it's a dying language - I would like to eat some humble pie and apologize for those remarks. I think in a lot of ways I'm still right, it's just that VFP being dead in something like 7 years happens to tie in nicely with my plans for becoming semi-retired right around then. With any luck I can ride out the rest of my full time career doing VFP, then hang out a shingle and do some contract VFP work as the rest of you guys bail and move on to something else.... I'm back.... Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
