[AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

No objections at all!

I started after university working for an Internet Startup who specialised
in e-commerce solutions for marketing, and paying their juniors very little.
Starting out as a VB developer, the work quickly ran out on the desktop side
so I was cross-trained (given a stack of manuals) to ASP/SQL Server.  The
company folded in 2001 along with a whole bunch of similar outfits in the
North West of England.

I then moved on to local government, again as an ASP developer.  After a
while in this role I took a year out to go to Australia (nothing to do with
the job, but have you seen the weather in the UK?)

When I got back it was murder looking for work, as no-one wanted to know
someone who'd been out of the game for a year.  Thankfully I was given a
chance to start on a contract at the law firm where I work for Roz and her
team, and am very happy - it's rolled on for a few months longer than I
thought it would; the work's varied and at the end of the day it all helps
on your CV, sometimes better (I'm told) than M$ exams.  





-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Erbach [mailto:erbachs at gmail.com] 
Sent: 21 February 2005 12:44
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

Roz, Gustav, John C., Gary, Jeffrey, Jim D. Doris, Debbie, Brett,
Charlotte, Ken, Mark, John B., Stuart, William, Rocky, Jim L., Jim H.,
Andy, Randy, and Tom,

Thank you all very much for your responses. Our glorious leader, Mr.
Bartow, has asked me to write an article for the newsletter based on
the responses you've given. So I'm asking if any of you have any
objections to letting me abridge your responses for that purpose? It
would also be helpful if those of you who already gave an "abridged"
version for the survey could flesh out your responses a bit, if you
have the time. I would appreciate it. Everyone has an interesting
story to tell about his or her own growth in the computer field.

I'm so glad that 21 of you have responded so far. Any others?

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI
www.swerbach.com/security



On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:27:17 -0000, Roz Clarke
<roz.clarke at donnslaw.co.uk> wrote:
> 1) Currently management and development of workflows in a rather nasty
legal
> application. No proper coding at all. :(
> 2) Used to do a lot with Access & Office integration, and reporting from
> various back-end data sources (informix, oracle, etc.). The shift is
really
> down to moving into management and not being able to do that and maintain/
> improve my technical skills at the same time.
> 3) Company (law firm), 250 employees, Tom's team leader <waves>
> 4) No
> 
> Roz
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