What are you? Some kind of computer geek?
(Actually, I found your ?s interesting, so will be watching this thread.)
In answer to your question, I am a computer geek wannabe. I spent the last 20 years as a college admin tinkering mainly with MS Access. Created and sold a few dbs, always thinking that at some point I would have those skills to fall back on if I ever lost my job. Now, I’ve lost my job and I’ve discovered that those skills aren’t in demand. I have a passion for the techie stuff and if I’m going to have to find a new job I want it to be a job doing what I’m most passionate about.
I’m trying to learn all I can as quickly as I can to make myself more employable. I’m teaching some MS Office classes at a small tech. college and also at a computer training center but not enough to pay the bills and no benefits.
I just downloaded the Express (free) version of Visual Studio and I’m hoping that my VBA knowledge will enable me to hit the ground running so that the learning curve won’t be too steep. I actually have 3 ideas for software that I think could have some commercial appeal. What I really hope to do is make the creation of them a reality so that I never have to work again (sort of a pun here because if you love what you do it isn’t work!).