I've never had a "long lasting Access contract" -- the closest I came to
that was over a five year period, I had a number of contracts doing work on
the same Access - Informix application, but the longest of those was
approximately 9 months (and that was "Y2K remediation according to the
client's corporate standard" -- a great deal of which was documenting
compliance on issues that really did not apply).
I finally admit to being (at least semi-) retired, now, but a number of my
colleagues have been working steadily since the early 1990s doing Access and
VB work. Most of the VB folk have found the demand now is more for VB.NET
than for "classic VB".
My observation is that if you go to the online job sites and search, you'll
find far, far fewer openings that are _only_ Access or _only_ VB, but those
still are skills included with others in many job requirements.
If you want to keep working with Microsoft software, you just have no choice
but to enter the world of .NET -- VB.NET, C#, or a number of other
..NET-compliant languages from other vendors. The next release, it appears
from "sneak peeks" published in the press, will do more to address the needs
of smaller users than current and earlier Visual Studio.NET versions.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
"unemployed_for_two_years" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:83f701c3e900$a18b7950$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Dear colleques,
>
> Is it just me or have most of you been experiencing the
> same dead-end results with finding Access or VB
> contracts? I've tried country-wide and it's rough out
> there. Any suggestions? I'm damn near homeless trying to
> use these skillsets.
>
> Hopefully, a new President will be in office next year
> who can help bring jobs back instead of worrying about
> defense issues as much.
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