What do you do that you earn six figures?

r/financialindependence • u/fidgit86 • Aug 13 '21

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/FatFiredProgrammer Aug 13 '21

Software development. We're all software developers here. True story.

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u/737900ER pls fix Aug 13 '21

That's not accurate! Some of us have to make PowerPoints about what the software developers are doing.

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u/Slammedtgs Aug 13 '21

PowerPoint is 50% of my life, excel is the other 50%.

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u/smashnmashbruh Aug 13 '21

my life is getting my clients out of excel so they can work in a database and export it to excel

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u/Slammedtgs Aug 13 '21

Databases are far superior, in my experience people are just afraid of them. For data storage, and regular processing I’ve moved this to access for myself, but as a company excel is still the powerhouse for us. We have commercial plugs ins too that allow us to access data but you don’t get the flexibility of owning the database like you can with access. I can do whatever the hell I want, and even blow it up if I’m stupid.

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u/smashnmashbruh Aug 13 '21

My problem is explaining that managing data the way data needs to be managed to utilize it versus viewed in a report, for example a a a and b b b is better than ab ab ab. They need to see it managed in aggregate form and only what they want, they don’t want to see key fields or additional fields that help manage data because they are narrow minded or easily confused. It’s been a trip migrating us to a variety of integrated systems and tables within quickbase versus easy departments own master yet duplicative “master” spreadsheet.

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u/r_lovelace Aug 13 '21

Reading this post literally makes me shake.