It appears that many companies write it off as a 'toy' database which has no place in a competitive corporate environment. To a certain extent, that's correct. There are certainly jobs that are too big for Access. Of course, there are plenty of jobs in the average workgroup and department for which the Jet database engine is ideal. And I'm none too keen on the fact that the VBA in Access is often a version back from the version that's available in other products.
Many problems end up being amenable to solution by a database.
Access is the VBA-enabled database. Even if you don't use it for most of your work, the skills you'll learn working with Access on a serious level will carry over into other jobs with other products. You and Dana met in a fairly untypical way. Would you please tell our visitors about it. We met online, in an Internet chat room, and were married in less than a year.