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

>> I work for Roz and her team, and am very happy
Now Tom pretend she's not looking and tell us what she's REALLY like to work
for.

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Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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From: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
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Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?
Date: 22/02/05 11:07

> 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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