To be a .... careers advice sought!

[Ron_dK]

What about Axsex ?

 

[Len Boorman]

What about Axsex ?

What you do in the Dutch Mountains !!!!!!! is up to you. It's a free country

L

 

[mattkorguk]

"Axcess for the narrow minded" by A. Dummy - I can see a whole range of books!!

 

[Alc]

ROFL. If you design them at half the required size will you get them at the required size?

No. The application will include a 'feature' which ensures that, unless the user pays for a later upgrade, the size of paper being used by a customer's printer will be detected and - should the report actually fit it - will double the size of the report.

What about Axsex ?

Sounds promising. I'm sure there's a way to build that in. There are numerous, questionable threads posted on the site along those lines and surely it would save the administrators the trouble of having to delete them, if a forum relating to sex were officially started?

 

[RexesOperator]

We could call the package Axcess

Could be on a winner here

Or Excess .. Or Accel

 

[Alc]

Or Excess ..

Great minds think clearly thinking alike

I plan on calling it Excess.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I hate to say it but, I personally think Access in some aspects can be considered an advanced Excel package. If there is no GUI for the user and all they ever see is queries or data I think they are led to believe it is an advanced Excel.

(KidRobot)

Sadly true, and proof that too many unimaginative people are claiming to be Access designers. (Or designers of any kind.) One might as well hire a carpenter to build a house that hasn't been designed yet and expect him/her to make something pretty.

Folks who can only build tabular forms and tabular reports just don't have a lot of tools in the toolkit. Which is not a good thing.

 

[pdx_man]

Well that is where I started > 10 years ago. I was an instructor for MS Office and HTML. I did that for a few years becoming a relative expert. I then got a job developing Access databases and learned SQL Server on my own. I then moved to a job where both Office and SQL development skills were needed learning more about the DBA aspects of SQL Server and taking on some of those responsibilities. My next job was as a DBA and that is where I am now. I think what you must always do, though, is hold a quiet respect for the MS Office world, as no one in the DBA world wants to give them the time of day, yet, management always needs an expert in MS Office, and those are the people you need to impress.

My advice:
Get a job developing, not teaching
Change jobs every couple years working with and learning from people smarter than you
Use the training budget for you company to take as many classes as you can

 

[RexesOperator]

Great minds think clearly thinking alike

...Fools seldom differ

 

[Alc]

...Fools seldom differ

If I understood what you meant by that, I might take offense

 

[JANELLA09]

...any suggestions on what experience, qualifications, programming languages would be best for me do do either of these jobs ....

Mary, You could check some IT resumes in order to see what qualifications you need. I'm thinking you must have a lot of knowledge of the basic IT languages.