Well I did that quite a few months back.

9 years ago, I spent many months looking at and not fully appreciating the potential of genetic algorithms, looking back now over the dissertation, I was so close to "getting it"...

7 years ago I left a technical software house for the attraction of

You already know my thoughts on what you got to do.

Your "2 year" paragraph has just gone WHOOOOOSH over my head.

Good luck with any changes you decide to make.

Personally I'm in the 'get out now and call me' faction.

The only reason I'm staying here is that there is really no point changing career when hopefully I'll be in Oz in a couple of years and then can have a total career change.

I'm just hacked off with budget cuts on the programmes I work on, and having the technical spec changed every two days becuase someone 'doesn't like the colour' ( I kid you not).

I just want to live a simple and uncomplicated life.

I'm very much in a the lot of them mood these days.

Take my advice and never have a job that involves too many acronyms...

@Jason,

No worries matey, was a confusing time for me also, a half dozen projects all wth there own background and just to mix it up, different languages

@Spindrift,

Yes, odd how somthing is not in the style of the application...untill tomorrow when it's somebody elses idea.

@Jimmy,

Sadly that is the world I live in. Year 1 to now have been spent dropping vowels and acronyms applied to everything. Comes from a time when machines could not process long or large amounts of instructional code, unlike today where you can have huge commands / file names. In the 70's when the as400 (my friend for many years) was kicked off, things like wrksplf mean work with spooled files, or look at the print out's on the system, and it pretty muh stuck. It's not too bad when you get used to it.

@SkodiRs,

I do ineed...I think the pendulum is charged, just need the pin pulling.

When weighing up the prospective benefits of favouring one technology over another, I think it's important to remember that ultimately they're all just different ways of achieving the same convoluted, expensive, unreliable mess of a solution...

Rob.