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/zjustice11 Aug 13 '21

I’d rather be poor than work on excel. I am not poor but I don’t work on excel

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u/Slammedtgs Aug 13 '21

Why the hate for excel? It’s a great tool.

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u/r_lovelace Aug 13 '21

It's a great tool but it's not the only tool and often it isn't the correct tool. This leads a lot of us from having no feelings about excel directly to pure hatred when we encounter the company or business unit that's running everything off of macros is some 2003 Excel spreadsheet and now you're tasked with integrating that into real systems.

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u/Slammedtgs Aug 13 '21

Ha. Macros are great, for the person who writes them and then only.

I always caution my team to make sure it’s fool proof or don’t use them. Most are never foolproof and when you turn over to someone else they unknowingly break stuff and don’t even know what happened.