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Had a choice. And you're gonna lose it when I tell you what programming langauage is involved. Foxpro 2.6. Yep, there's money to be made in them thar legacy systems. A company needed someone to code some changes and, even more important, test everything because their QA Department doesn't do DOS any longer. The coding's the easy part - I can do that in my sleep.

I would have passed up the contract if it was just programming - but this way I can be responsible for the entire QA process without a bunch of nitwits imposing QA processes that aren't relevant. And it's a highly mission critical system, so I've gotta get it right.

And you're gonna lose it when I tell you what programming langauage is involved. Foxpro 2.6.

Losing it, 498y2qcpo987qtcybp9oayn2p9!!!!!!!!!!

Do you also get hit by lightning once in a while?

I have sent out 20,000 resumes in the last year, nothing. I have given up. I have $25,000 squirreled away, I am waiting this one out. I can go another year on that. Hell, I can eat quite well for $5 a day.

I am doing a lot of writing now. I have a piece running in the Washington Business Journal next month, about, you guessedit, outsourcing. I also have a couple of systems being developed in Moscow. Thats another $10,000.

I am actually thinking about writing a book about outsourcing. Not the economics of it, but a book on how it is actually done on a real world basis.