filePro Programmer shortage

[J. Ryan Kelley]

-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Mike
Schwartz (PC Support & Services, Appleton, WI)
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:58 PM
To: Ernie Barnard
Cc: filepro-list at seaslug.org
Subject: filePro Programmer shortage


On Thu, February 24, 2005 12:36, Ernie Barnard said:
> And the good thing is that there are not many (or any) unemployed filePro
> programmers right now. Bad thing is that there may not be enough to go
> around.
>
> Ernie Barnard

     Yes.  I have three clients right now looking for filePro programmers;
one near Green Bay, Wisconsin and two near Chicago, and they haven't
been able to find any.

     In Green Bay, they decided to move a SCO Unix person who had "a
couple of data base classes in college" into the filePro department
starting Monday, so I will be teaching her filePro for a couple of
hours each evening, beginning tomorrow.

     It's a shame, because I am filling in right now for a couple of other
former full time filePro programmers.  One decided to persue a
Java/web development position at another company shortly after they
got him fully trained, and the other they had to let go because he
was calling in sick more days than he was actually showing up on the
job.

Mike



I don't think that a shortage of filepro programmers is really a problem.  I
think anyone with any programming background can pick up on filepro and be a
pretty capable programmer over the course of a few months.  I had never
heard of filepro 5 months ago, I'm fresh out of WVU with an education in
computer science where almost all of the emphasis was on C/C++ along with
lab sciences and math.  I've been working with filepro for around 4 months
now and feel very comfortable with it.  I was doing basic programming about
an hour into my first day.  As long as the new programmer has someone well
learned in filepro teaching/mentoring them, I believe that anyone who is a
programmer could easily become well versed in filepro.


Ryan