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If you have SQL, and Visual Basic and want to stay a freeman rather than jump on a corporate tailcoat, I would venture Java could help you develope skills and add value to you personally at a nominal investment. Oracle Application Developement, or Oracle DBA would also help round off SQL and VB. This is another path like above where you would be honing in on a corporate path and at the whims of the market and social engineers. Slightly higher survivability than a US stock trader hardened company bent on restoration of Bolshevik Economics. Interesting fact that is not mentioned in the 1917 revolution is that the Bolshevik’s were the same landlords who forced Russians into serfdom.
See; The Avalon Project, Princton Law School, Princton University.
The only reason I mention this is, the cost to plow is quickly changed into debt, to ownership, to serfdom. I prefer, “if” I am going to subjigate myself to sacrifice my sweat equity, I will choose someone that “may” have a harder time of lobby groups. Or at least when the work benifits the least, “protectionism” may save a few. Gotta play smart, Oracle does like to send the H1b’s at you. As rapidly as technology is changing, Java, Intel, and .NET seem to provide the best tools for paralell processing for multi-cores. Kinda an N-complete choice huh?