re: #180 PT Barnum

Been in the same boat, repeatedly, Walter. Hope you find something soon.

I’ve been fortunate to have found short term independent gigs relatively quickly.

You might check out Rent-A-Coder. Jobs come in from all over, and as long as you’re reasonably fast, you might be able to pull in a buck or two here and there.

I will check that out. It’s really weird. Just last week, I sent a resume to a legit job. They were upgrading to a new manufacturing/inventory control/distribution system, and all there old data was in medium sized legacy systems written in Access and Visual FoxPro going to an Oracle based system

My expertise is conversions of legacy systems, and my current skills is as an Oracle programmer

I can assure you that they did not get to many resumes from people who are guru’s in Access and Visual FP and who is also well versed in designing applications with Oracle.

I cut my teeth on Dbase/Clipper/FoxPro and then in the 90’s, moved into the Oracle world. Have designed many customs business applications in all those platforms.

Not a peep from the company. And my salary requirement were about half of what the industry can bear, but these people were a medium sized sports wear company and I priced accordingly.

Go figure.

I’ll look them up.