I have been a classic ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 programmer for some time. My company went belly up and now I am unemployed. I want to stay in my home town. All the jobs that are available all want 1-3 years of .NET experience. This is rediculious. Is it some kind of way to keep the old guys out of the market. Come on, I use to program mail frame, and taught myself the PC area. Does anyone know how to break thru the gate, get pass the palace guard? I have read a good number of books on the subject. Loaded up MS .NET Framework on my PC. And written a few programs/systems. Anybody have any helpful suggestions> Chuck :omg: