This is a different answer from the question, but might still be
helpful.
Some advice I remember.
"Design your business operations like a franchise. Then, when you get
bored with it, you can much more easily delegate, or indeed offer
franchises."
Not all businesses will design like that, but alternative energy might.
Gordon.
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 19:18 +0100, Roger Munford wrote:
> From time to time this list has given advice to people at the beginning
> of their careers. I wonder if you have any advice for those at the other
> end.
> I spent about 25 years as a contract programmer working on all sorts of
> projects before stopping to follow a bit of a dream in alternative
> energy about 6 years ago. However for me, the excitement surrounding
> alternative energy, on the installation side, has become routine and my
> heart (not to mention back and knees) is no longer in it.
>
> I would like to return to contract programming but don’t feel confident
> that I could be productive enough without some preparation.
>
> I did electrical engineering and electronics at University and have done
> a lot of assembler and C around hardware projects and have done
> successful projects in Java, PHP, MySQl, Javascript, HTML, Labview,
> Postscript and the now defunct Foxpro. Clearly I am not up to speed in
> any of these now but I thought I would ask the list for views on what
> languages, tools and sectors are currently sought after and if there is
> any training or qualification that would be worth investing in. I
> haven't looked at mobile programming, perhaps that is an option.
>
> I maintain a couple of programmes that I wrote for DOS over 25 years ago
> and have subsequently ported through to Windows 7. They are still in
> daily use so I feel that I have a good commitment to quality work.
>
> Thanks
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> Roger
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