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I'm 72, have been doing it since 1977, and I am tired. I do custom Desktop programs for distributors.
I am tired. 
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Write something for yourself that you like. I liken it to whittling (with the app store in mind). In the process, I've become somewhat versed in Napoleonic battle field tactics.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Do you already have someone to pass it on ?
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I am 54, in a similar boat, but not winding down.
I have a small number of boutique clients.
If you are interested in passing this on to someone, I would love to help.
I can provide you a couple of client references from clients that have been with me for 20+ years!
I do use Paid TV, and I like that you HONOR the restriction on the licensing model!
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Is remote desktop not an option?
I know you log off the remote user, but if you are going to take over anyways...
As long as you don't log off, you can just close the RD window with your mouse and everything continues running in the background, then the local person logs in and can continue where you left it.
You might want to have a look here [^] too, VNC would be a nice option (I have used it a while and did everything I needed).
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.
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Had been using that but need to share screen with my users to troubleshoot and train them.
Also their Network security is a problem.
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Fair enough
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.
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Is Teams allowed to be a contender?
You can do remote desktop sharing, I know it works well enough, and I'm pretty sure I've seen options to let others take over to control the system whose screen is shared. But the other person has to be there to click and approve the request; it's not one of those systems that lets you connect and control when there's nobody at the other end.
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Look at AnyDesk. I've switched to it long time ago and never looked back.
Mircea
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Thanks for the tip, I will. 
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Anydesk works very well, I use it often.
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RealVNC is a great alternative. I have used it extensively to control remote stations and never had a problem.
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Slow Eddie wrote: It is hideously expensive
How much do they charge ? I have always wondered - their software is really good. I am using the free version to remote access the server of the local school ( I am the hobby IT support there).
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Anydesk works very very well.
In case this is not suitable for you, there is the already included in windows "Quick assist" which is slow, but it works.
Hope this helps! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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thanks for the tip. I will look at it too.
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I've used it and had no complaints.
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This is reassuring. thank you.
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See discussion below starting at the leave (you see there facts are minor, points are major):The Lounge[^]
It does really to seem to correspond to the "Straw Poll" see here: Survey Results - How long have you been coding?[^] that here we have only a bunch of old furts living from their memoris, but not able to be up to date.
Expirience? Yes, maybe in some displicines.
But sorry, I see this daily in Q/A, here (at CP) one can obviously only answer the simple things (template answers, some simple cout/cin Qs and small parts of c# but one does mainly accuse members to ask bad questions, ...).
More difficult things will be redirected to SO.
The only exception from my point of view is _Richard Deeming_ who seems to be the only one, to be able to answer also the more/most difficult questions. And no, I don't know him, have no profits to mention him!
Again sorry, but hopefully @chris-maunder will see that message
[Edit]
You old furts and I'm one of them, most probably higher then the average here.
But the message I like to transfer:
Be respectfull also above all for beginners....!
Of course after 10...40 years programming a lot of questions looks very very simple, but please remember when you started....
And yes, all the homework and 'I'm late' is trash, I'm not writing about them,
I like that we give a _big_ hand to the beginners and take them serious
[/Edit]
modified 9-Oct-21 21:01pm.
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I just break into the game industry, now working at EA!  
At any rate, I see many younglings at EA....
Come to think of it, I see many younglings in all my previous job.. and oldlings too. Both in fact.
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You imagine that the "issues" you describe are issues other people have.
They are your issues, and your lack of understanding of English may be a factor in your confusion.
Your "old furts" inference from one CP anonymized survey is absurd: out of 15+ million members, responses of the relatively few that respond may indicate only a weak trend, or nothing.
Stop complaining, and name-calling, and go where you are more comfortable.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Good response Bill.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Makes this site unwelcoming.
Maybe the OP has a point, as proven by Bill?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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We can be or not be whatever we are or not are...
But reading the whole thread below, he is not definitivelly better than what he claims that we are.
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.
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wrote: Be respectfull also above all for beginners....!
Of course after 10...40 years programming a lot of questions looks very very simple, but please remember when you started....
And yes, all the homework
I actually like the homework questions. That is, if it is not on the last day, begging to simply hand over the answer, or having to choose for some university stud that is late to choose between the examples he found (for a test designed to verify if he could do a for-loop!)
If you want a career in this field you have to do the effort, especially with that amount of competition. And more importantly, if you skip understanding the answer and copy paste, imagine going to work, where it is assumed the knowledge of the curriculum is actually there. You could create expensive bugs. Imagine, if you will, that surgeons had SO site and skipped homework by copying answers 
As for knowing how to ask a question, one should learn that before starting to program. So, some background, expected output/results, actual output/results and the relevant part of the code where the exception occurs. Don't go to your boss and just say "there's something burning" - indicate where, what and if the fire-department should be called.
I'll make exceptions for kids ofcourse, one cannot expect them to have learned all of that yet, so one is more patient. Sometimes its homework, sometimes a hobby.
I do agree that my tone could be friendlier. Still working on that.
wrote: The only exception from my point of view is _Richard Deeming_ who seems to be the only one
There's a few of those, and there a small competition each year.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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