re: What are some hard skills younwish you had learned for your career?

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SQL and VBA for career long term

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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.