r/financialindependence • u/fidgit86 • 9d ago

What do you do that you earn six figures?

It seems like a lot of people make a lot of money and it seems like I’m missing out on something. So those of you that do, whats your occupation that pays so well?

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u/Z_BabbleBlox 9d ago

Explain causality to people who should know better.

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u/szayl 9d ago

Gotta make em a Tableau dashboard...

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u/trudith 9d ago

Stop you’re triggering me 😂

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u/evert198201 9d ago

Nice! I still have to try Tableau but first exploring MS power BI...

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u/catdog918 9d ago

How is power bi? My company will be making the switch to them soon

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u/RedAero 9d ago

PowerBI can barely do any more than Excel already can with PowerPivot, and is hell to work with if you have large data sets and you know SQL. If you're ignorant of SQL and you're happy to straight-up import all your data (as opposed to preferring to offload the crunching to the million-dollar server), you might enjoy it, but in my experience the people usually tasked with actually using BI software are more technical-minded than that. I usually end up doing 90% of the work server-side in SSMS and then just using one, pre-prepared custom view/table and only doing the viz in PBI. Theoretically it integrates with O365 so you'd think deployment is a breeze but be prepared to bang your head against the wall of permissions required.

That said, I've only casually used Tableau on small, exercise data sets, so I can't accurate compare the to.

Oh, and PBI can't do many-to-many joins. Fuck that.

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u/evert198201 9d ago

I am using the desktop app for now in combination with excel sheets, performance is pretty slow and it crashes somethimes, could be the sheets that exceeds 25k records.

I tried Tableau once quickly and their UI seemed very nice compared to BI, however since we already use office365 power bi integrates better.

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u/catdog918 9d ago edited 9d ago

Interesting, we’re using tableau right now and their ui is nice but they’re more expensive for the company and bi integrates like you said. Tableau can be annoying sometimes but it’s fairly easy to learn.

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u/productivenef 9d ago

When I was in project management I didn't have access to edit Tableau or Power BI. When Google Data Studio came out I started fuckin killin it at the dashboard game... And it was all being fed by my Google Sheets 😍

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u/here4thePho 9d ago

i love google data studio, its just so easy and simple like any google product. power BI is soooo slow.

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u/Aesthetically 9d ago

I have like four years of Tableau experience and about two years Power BI experience. My Power BI rarely crashed and I had pretty large data sets in it (far above 25k). Tableau rarely crashes either, but the prep software I use crashes and hangs daily.

I think Power BI is massively better than Tableau. Data transformation is powerful and in-app, which Tableau struggles with. Tableau needs a separate solution to do any intermediate data transformation. The formulas in PBI are much more flexible than Tableau, and the visualization Features are just as good if not better.

Sure, Tableau Server is nice and my company operates effectively on it.. But Power BI always felt like a clear winner.

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u/catdog918 9d ago

Interesting, I’m excited to try it out. I’ve found tableau to be smooth but at times it seems like you’re limited in what you can do. I’ve heard bi is better from a few friends but never got around to trying it.

It just feels weird cuz the company I work for just implemented tableau a few months ago. They’re a tad slow to implement new technologies but I guess that comes with being a large power company in the northeast, no competition so no real urgent incentive to be cutting edge in that regard.

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u/Buzanderr 9d ago

Is the switch safe ? Otherwise I can highly recommend checking out Qlik. Big focus on self service and more transparent pricing model than PBI

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u/catdog918 9d ago

I should say *company I work for.

It’s a very large company and analysts have no real say in what software the company wants to use.

I will bring up Qlik though as you aren’t the first person to recommend it.

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u/Buzanderr 9d ago

Classy, the pain of greater enterprises.

If you guys want some insights or whatever hit me up

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u/Imbtfab 9d ago

Tableau is absolute dog shit if you're working with large datasets, the query engine sucks so much and can't build a decent query even if their life depended on it. You have to be real particular about the controls you add, the order they're added and whatnot or they will kill your db. We started using it some 3-4 years ago and throwing it away, hopefully soon.

On top of this, so many things that should be real simple to do, is very hard or not possible at all. Run out of disk space because their non rotating log files ate it all up? Have fun manually deleting and them reinstalling Tableau. License won't update? Have fun reinstalling. It's slow as hell for startup and shutdown. A component won't start? Wait the 30 mins it takes to restart the server, only to realize it doesn't work... reinstall time. I could go on, but already fuming for thinking about this crap software on my day off.

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u/xceled 9d ago

What are you migrating to?

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u/Imbtfab 8d ago

We're still considering our options. We have a project going on for a bit evaluating ElasticSearch/Kibana. Alternatively go back to make dashboards with code. They're all on web, we only use the Tableau client to make the dashboards and publish them(which is troublesome in itself as it's on a different network). It's so much faster to make on web compared to Tableau, lower cost, less hacks to get around Tableau limitations and doesn't require tailormade databases for specific dashboards. Now we need to duplicate the data in different dbs with just slight changes and it affects the whole ETL process.

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u/Eightstream 9d ago

Can I export it to Excel?

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u/BrainRemmington 9d ago

This is super relevant to my work lately and so pardon my excitement, but Looker is dope.

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u/catdog918 9d ago

Literally doing that rn

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u/word_speaker 9d ago

I’m guessing you work with data and analyze it and explain to stakeholders?

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u/just_bookmarking 9d ago

Chandler?

How are the twins?

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u/word_speaker 9d ago

They are big and round still! Gonna keep it that way and not get saggy lol

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u/just_bookmarking 9d ago

Hi, Chandler's dad.

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u/vrijheidsfrietje 9d ago

Or miss Chanandler Bong

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u/Centralredditfan 9d ago

I'm pivoting into this. Not sure if I like it yet. Definitely have a lot to learn.

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u/Gaerielyafuck 9d ago

Hi, you mentioned me? It reminds me of the Top Gear meme.

Me: The data suggests this is the best option

Them: But we LIKE this option over here

Me:.......

Them: Okay, we'll go with the one over here. Thanks!

Me:.......sure thing, you're welcome?

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u/lolliegagger 9d ago

A struggler?

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u/I_am_Andrew_Ryan 9d ago

Technically he'd be Calcium Knight

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u/Nobuko42 9d ago

Actuary?

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u/PucWalker 9d ago

Judge?

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u/Halostar 20s M | USA | Self-employed 9d ago

I don't clear 6 figures but yes.

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u/XbdudeX 9d ago

The famous youtuber Casually Explained?

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u/proverbialbunny 9d ago

Data Analyst?

I'm a data scientist that writes software that pattern matches causality, ie predictive analytics. Same ballpark.

Fun philosophy: Most people get uncomfortable with seeing people as causal like the rest of the universe because it takes away free will, not realizing one can have free will and be causal at the same time.

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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 9d ago

Wait, why are you getting downvoted? Are you secretly being snarky and me being the dum-dum that I am, am not getting it?

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u/proverbialbunny 9d ago

Probably the philosophy bit.

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u/999999999999999993 9d ago

It's true. It's only once you go against its laws where you find tremendous resistance

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u/Excellent_Spare2971 9d ago

Insurance Broker- P&C?

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u/pieman7414 9d ago

My professors?

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u/coinfrog21 9d ago edited 9d ago

sound like Anton Chigur.

do you know what Nemesis means?

what are you talking about

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u/solongamerica 9d ago

metaphysician?

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u/WanderThinker 9d ago

But look at all this correlation!

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u/GeneralJesus 9d ago

Fucking preach. And I'm not even an analyst. Just one of the ones who should know better, so you know, I try to.

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u/Jail_Mary 9d ago

Is this a berserk reference?

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u/battlemechpilot 9d ago

Who are you, Skull Knight?

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u/IveAlreadyGotOne 9d ago

Sounds like every trip to my primary care doctor.

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u/Vegetable_Hamster732 9d ago

Mob loan shark enforcer?

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u/Ninjaassassinguy 9d ago

Skull Knight?