[AccessD] The future of Access, .NET and SQL

Susan Harkins ssharkins at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 28 11:04:42 CDT 2005


I am not saying that .net isn't a PITA, it definitely is.  There is a LOT to
learn and a LOT of stuff to discover and figure out, but man it is in a
completely different league from anything I have ever seen before.  The guys
making 800s on their SATs are designing stuff that I can use to make me look
like I scored 700s on mine.  ;-)  

I think that is pretty darned awesome.

===========Awesome yes, but change always displaces people. In the late 80's
through the 90's, applications development was something that the smarter
than ordinary, but not a rocket scientist person could take up, sometimes
even teach themselves, and cut out a nice little niche for themselves --
with a little ingenuity and ambition, a regular person could make a decent
living. That's getting harder and harder.  

It isn't just .NET that's changing things -- it's not learning one
difficult, but really powerful language -- it's the expectations, no it's
the demand, that we be competent in several different areas. It isn't enough
to know a lot about something anymore, you must know a lot about several
technologies now. It's becoming too much for some people -- people like me.
I don't want to work that hard for so little -- just to keep up. If I can't
get ahead, I'm in the wrong place. I will never get ahead with .NET/Web/etc.
--  I will never be proficient enough. 

Susan H. 




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