Free lancing on weekends for Excel VBA projects? Possible? Reality? Legal?

[Isaac]

I think that's cool, I've ran into people in some of my jobs where the firm was using super old software and there would be "that one guy" who knew how to edit it and he was priceless (and walked around like he owned the place too), thinking of the AZ Dept of Revenue, I cannot for the life of me remember the software name, but it was some absolute dinosaur and he was set for life b/c any 'migration' to a newer system would have taken years in and of itself and he was already in his 60's.

When I get anxiety about not keeping up fast enough with the new shiny tools, I remind myself that there is always a need for the dude who knows how to run the older software - and you're right, sometimes they make even more $ due to scarcity.

 

[Isaac]

Accenture used a variety of legacy tools to develop ADOR's BRITS system, but it was flawed with stability issues.

The position I had there was kind of unique in the sense that by and large their database system of choice was Oracle, but there was one little corner of the department so to speak that used access and then once I came, SQL server. I had to migrate a fairly backwards and convoluted access database to something workable with a SQL backend. It was a lot of fun

 

[SachAccess]

When I get anxiety about not keeping up fast enough with the new shiny tools, I remind myself that there is always a need for the dude who knows how to run the older software - and you're right, sometimes they make even more $ due to scarcity.

Awesome.