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

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/Slammedtgs Aug 13 '21

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

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u/small_trunks Aug 13 '21

Ex-Developer here - Excel is now 95% of my life and I even fucking like it.

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u/Slammedtgs Aug 13 '21

A lot of people knock excel, I love it. I’ve learned to how automate most of my tasks, including interacting with commercial plug ins and libraries via VBA.

Before my current role, my secret weapon was my ability to automate mundane tasks. There are better solutions available if you can make the business case and get the company to invest, but for me I could spend a day writing code and then let the program run and complete my work while I went to lunch or screwed around.

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u/small_trunks Aug 13 '21

I've written massive programs in power query in recent years which would have been a nightmare to program in any other language.

Right now working on a large customer database cleanup which incorporates 19 different sources of information (sql, csv, xlsx) - all merged and cleaned using PQ. I spend most of my time answering questions on /r/excel, tbh...