Access Programming Job Market - How are you doing?

[Hap007]

Hi,

I was just wondering how the rest of this community is making out programming in Access?

Are you busy?
Are you developing new clients?
Have you moved on to a different language? If so, what and why?

I have been on tec-tips for many years and it seems that there are less questions in the Access forums than 2 years ago. Is this because people are now more experienced or is this due to a slow down in MS Access development?

I welcome everyone's thoughts.

Hap...

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[trevorwilliams2]

A lot of developers being out of work might be a factor in what you are seeing.

The need is sill there with small and medium business, but a lot of them are holding out until things pick back up again...

 

[jrbarnett]

I'm doing very little new development now with Access and Excel, its mostly implementation of commercial systems and support for existing SQL Server/Access/Excel apps.

Have tried to start trying to learn C#, but not getting very far at all due to lack of time.

There's a guy where I work who graduated in computer science 2 years ago and has been doing office admin type work because he hasn't even been able to get a helpdesk job. So the jobs that do come up its the usual catch 22 - no experience = no job.

John

 

[kray4660]

Or the other end (especially for college grads). Too much education for the job. A lot of employers who want helpdesk or techies do not want a person who can program the computer, they figure they won't last very long at that job. I ran into that issue some years ago.