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

My philosophy is you keep learning until you die, whether you like it or
not:  you have no choice unless you'd like to die sooner.  I am a
largely self-taught programmer and I've been making my living at it for
years.  Now I'm making my living at .Net and learning as I go, just as I
always have.  Eventually, I'll get tired too.  I'm already tired enough
so that I don't go home and experiment with new approaches to bring back
to the office, but then I'm 61 and I need my sleep! <g>  I'm quite happy
to let the young turks break new ground while I follow along tidying up
after them.

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Harkins [mailto:ssharkins at bellsouth.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:05 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] The future of Access, .NET and SQL


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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