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re: What are some hard skills younwish you had learned for your career?
Posted on 3/10/18 at 8:21 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 3/10/18 at 8:21 pm to athenslife101
I wish I would have went to school to be a machinest.
Posted on 3/10/18 at 8:26 pm to lnomm34
quote:actually it's coulda
Here’s a skill for you: it is not ‘could of.’
The correct verb phrase is ‘could have
Posted on 3/10/18 at 8:41 pm to Eli Goldfinger
What is R and SAS. I’ve heard of SAS but don’t know what that is.
Posted on 3/10/18 at 9:00 pm to athenslife101
I wish I could increase my three point percentage to 55%. That way I would be doing actually what I love doing with playing baseketball instead of settling for this raggedy arse engineering job.
Posted on 3/10/18 at 10:16 pm to athenslife101
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I just realized that I should have spent the last year learning SQL and VBA for career long term despite it being mostly useless to me right now. Thought it might be a good discussion for this board.
Don't become dependent on just being the SQL or VBA guy, especially if you work at a large company. Your job will just be shipped to India eventually.
Posted on 3/10/18 at 11:32 pm to cameronml
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Already like 80% in India but if I want to take the next step in financial shite, I feel like.vba and sql will can be the next step in learning to do professional level investment valuations and modeling and shite
Already like 80% in India but if I want to take the next step in financial shite, I feel like.vba and sql will can be the next step in learning to do professional level investment valuations and modeling and shite
Posted on 3/10/18 at 11:40 pm to athenslife101
If you work in a setting that uses a computer, and you have even the slightest tech inclination, LEARN VBA!
You don’t need to worry or waste time developing your own interface, you can hijack Microsoft Office’s.
Even if it’s enough to know how to clean up code produced after using the built in recorder that encodes mouse clicks and keyboard commands, it’s something.
The next step would be the ability to program your own functions that can be used in the spreadsheet.
Icing on the cake is that most proprietary software allows for export into csv, making integration of their outputs into your own programs easy.
There is no better work related cost/benefit effort than the ability to do this effectively. You can tackle a task that turns hours of tedious manual computer labor into a single mouse click, and bask in the adoration of your bosses.
You don’t need to worry or waste time developing your own interface, you can hijack Microsoft Office’s.
Even if it’s enough to know how to clean up code produced after using the built in recorder that encodes mouse clicks and keyboard commands, it’s something.
The next step would be the ability to program your own functions that can be used in the spreadsheet.
Icing on the cake is that most proprietary software allows for export into csv, making integration of their outputs into your own programs easy.
There is no better work related cost/benefit effort than the ability to do this effectively. You can tackle a task that turns hours of tedious manual computer labor into a single mouse click, and bask in the adoration of your bosses.
This post was edited on 3/10/18 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 3/10/18 at 11:42 pm to cameronml
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Don't become dependent on just being the SQL or VBA guy, especially if you work at a large company. Your job will just be shipped to India eventually.
That’s why you don’t shoot to be the VBA guy.
You shoot to be the 6-Sigma guy that’s a VBA guru. Even if you can only get to green belt, your hireability goes through the roof, and almost all industries start to become accessible.
This post was edited on 3/10/18 at 11:45 pm
Posted on 3/11/18 at 12:21 am to Volvagia
Is 6 sigma still valuable? I know they tried to apply it to our department and it was a huge failure and everyone I talk with hates it.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 2:57 am to athenslife101
It sounds like either you are working in a subjective field where it’s difficult to quantify elements, or it was implemented by idiots.
Or management just did it because it looks good on paper and didn’t give the point men of the project the support they needed.
But to say it sucks is like saying the scientific method is flawed.
All it is doing is using an statistics driven approach to identify problem areas for management to target. It’s not a solution in of itself. Just a tool to assist in the effective allocation of effort and resources.
And half decent business will use elements of it, even if it doesn’t have the six sigma red stamp on it.
Or management just did it because it looks good on paper and didn’t give the point men of the project the support they needed.
But to say it sucks is like saying the scientific method is flawed.
All it is doing is using an statistics driven approach to identify problem areas for management to target. It’s not a solution in of itself. Just a tool to assist in the effective allocation of effort and resources.
And half decent business will use elements of it, even if it doesn’t have the six sigma red stamp on it.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:05 am to athenslife101
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SQL and VBA for career long term
I'm an expert in these very things. I agree.
My first job after ISDS and Finance degrees at LSU was for tax and appraisal software company in Texas. Boss would hand me a huge arse data dump of legacy system data and a rudimentary mapping scheme and tell me to use VB6 to automate the conversion of this data to SQL Server 6.5. The upside was crazy dashes to Mexico From Del Rio(got drunk often at that bar Cheech gets shot in Desperado). Then a year later, hitting 'Go' on my program and going chase Baylor girls in Waco with my expense account while my code took all night to run.
Good news is they aren't terribly difficult to get up to speed in.
This post was edited on 3/11/18 at 3:17 am
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:12 am to Volvagia
I’m in funding. We fund investments depending on client investments and where our accounting indicates we have open position. The problem we find is it sometimes 6 hours to find a funding solution. Or 5 minutes . It depends on the markets. So our metrics are completely fricked to measure because our metrics appear random
Posted on 3/11/18 at 4:24 am to athenslife101
I think the first scenario I stated applies
Posted on 3/11/18 at 10:57 am to shutterspeed
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Machiavellianism
POTUS has it mastered
Posted on 3/11/18 at 11:24 am to athenslife101
How to type quicker. I don't hunt and peck, but I'm still slow when corresponding.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 11:25 am to athenslife101
My dad was a good caprenter, but growing up, I was more interested in playing sports than learning that skill from him. Oddly, my son is a very good caprenter as well.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 11:28 am to Averytiger
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How to type quicker. I don't hunt and peck, but I'm still slow when corresponding.
I still have to erase at least 2 words per sentence due to a mistype. Really slows the process down. Sad thing is I don't seem to be getting any better. Just plateaued about 5 years ago and thats as good as I'll get.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 11:33 am to athenslife101
Many football and basketball players probably wish they’d have learned the pull out method.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 11:38 am to CHEDBALLZ
I taught myself SQL for my job.
Not required but helps a lot when doing ad how reporting/analysis of our data.
Not required but helps a lot when doing ad how reporting/analysis of our data.
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