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Super Lloyd wrote:
Enjoy WPF and MVVM, very enjoyable and powerful :) (though, admittedly, easy to get wrong too)
I can sing a song about that X| Luckily I found out my error soon enough and could redirect it. Unluckily, I am not working in the field anymore so I will forget everything again :(
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
damn! good luck :)
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
As others have said, if it speaks to you, go for it.
Amarnath S wrote:
which uses WPF, and MVVM
Personally, I would never, and will never, touch WPF. ;) WPF is, imho, one of those widow-makers of programming. :laugh:
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
Don't you know WPF stands for: Woeful Pathetic Frivolity :-\
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
Hm. Without a full-time daily job, working on something I enjoy from home would be an easy choice: do it! As for not-latest-and-greates-tech, my personal (as in "grounds I work off when on my job") opinion is who cares. There's a lot of fads going on in the IT space. The new stuff may be new but that's about it, the new stuff may be even good, but who's to say the old stuff isn't or the new stuff is better than the old? My next big GUI project will be made with Xamarin.Forms (to reach Windows & Android from the same code base, Xamarin.Forms could do iOS as well, but with Apple's paranoid restrictions, the use case can't be served under iOS which, by the way, isn't my job to tell customers), but there's no reason not to stick with "classical" WPF if it gets the job done. Hell, I'm still doing a lot with Windows Forms. Something being old, stable & mature isn't a reason to switch away from it.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
why not? take the job, especially if you like it.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
It looks like a good fit with the only caution I can think of is the support aspect and how it could suck you in somewhat against your will. Like, if you make the app, great, but then are you going to be supporting it? If you are, is that going to fit with your "retired life"? This is an aspect where one can easily trick yourself into thinking "it won't be that much of an issue" but then find that oh, I can't go on a vacation or step away from things for a while to focus on something else, or if I do my vacation might be wrecked because of a support issue you feel you need to work on that rears its ugly head.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
I am 64 and have done everything from embedded to CV and ML. I would not mind finding a part time WPF gig when I retire. If you have the time and the inclination, I would say go for it. You have nothing to lose. Doug
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
TD;DR: yes It sounds like it's something you'd kinda enjoy, and be paid for. People tend to live too long these days - extra cash is always welcome - and having a hobby that you're kinda into that also pays is great. If you don't need the money, it takes the pressure off too - if it stops being fun, quit.
------------------------------------------------ If you say that getting the money is the most important thing You will spend your life completely wasting your time You will be doing things you don't like doing In order to go on living That is, to go on doing things you don't like doing Which is stupid. - Alan Watts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gXTZM\_uPMY
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CHill60 wrote:
Not enough challenges just answering QA here on CP
The real challenge is often in finding what these people want in the first place :laugh:
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Actually, I don't have a challenge getting to what they want... I have to work to get it to what they NEED, and often reduce that to what they can afford. They WANT everything done perfectly (without a definition of acceptable, usually). And they typically want the computer to do "human" things, while expecting humans to do "CPU" things. [When this account comes up, highlight it if it looks IFFY... LMAO] [Should we display a highlight if the client owes money for too long? Nahh, the rep will see that!]
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Though not a boatful of money, money is not a problem right now. I am occupied part-time with what I like to do otherwise (which is spirituality), and this programming assignment is for the remaining part-time, which is what I am comfortable with. This is the reason for my inclination towards this.
I think you answered your own question... With ONE caveat... Is there something else you are not doing, that you are avoiding? Will this assignment be the continuous excuse as to why you don't have time? [Hitting the Gym, Eating better, Getting a full nights sleep, connecting with people] I have a bad habit of self-sabotage in that regard. I will let myself down far faster than anyone else. Just a thought!
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
Do something you enjoy. Why worry about expanding your skill sets? (Assuming you retired because you are financially secure.) I retired in the summer of 2008 and thought I was financially secure until the Sep./Oct. crash that same year. So I spent the next 8 years teaching part-time at a local university as an adjunct. I really enjoyed it and it kept me from dipping into my IRA. Now, we're pretty well off since everything has recovered plus I've got the experience to use in my resume in case I need to get some income in the future. BTW - not sure what you mean by "Active Service" but assuming that means the military, I think any defense contractor would be a possibility for a part-time, work-from-home software job. They are desperate for people with experience and domain knowledge.
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I would only come out of retirement for a project that spoke to me on some important level. If finances were tight, then I would come out of retirement for any project I had most of the skill sets the project/position was looking for. Side thought: I don't learn new technologies, etc. as quickly as I did when I was 25, I am almost 50 now. It will be worse when I am 60+, I am sure. Most of the junior devs on my team are under 30 and grok things much quicker than I do.
slacker, I declare bullshit and throwing the flag. You learn just as well as you did in your earlier Years. I'm older than you - and what I have found is not an inability to learn. It's that we have so much experience we know nonsense when we see it. Example: OP says "
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the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc.
seriously? Setting aside the OS references, after 30+ years, we figured out that sooner or later you have to deliver something. We *know* we need something stable. you're going to be fine :)
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
Ummm, are you bored being retired? Why not? I'm lost at your question. The real issue - get paid what you think you are worth. You're retired for a reason. The Hero Work of an Engineer is Knowing Where to Put the X | Lifecycle Insights[^] This story has been spun so many times, but there is truth.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
