At the time, the world's largest futures commodity exchange in downtown Chicago; spent over a dozen years there supporting the trading floor and end-of-day reports. Then I went to a company that sold a wireless order management system to utility companies for 2 years, doing Tandem and VB 3. They got bought out by a Canadian competitor, so I went to Texas to work for "Hell" computers for almost 4 years, doing Tandem and VB (and NOT getting the training in other software packages as promised).

Now I'm over in Houston at a small custom print shop doing VB and SQL Server 7 stored procedures. Nice place, but I'm not getting any exposure to things besides VB that I know I need to learn.

Starting to get calls from Tandem recruiters. I tell them that if they have anything back in Chicago, call me back.