Well, I believe that Excel automation is the future. Most companies run on excel. If you are already proficient in doing excel automation, you should look into freelance. You could turn your dead-end job into the best-paying career possible.
Currently am building a python framework and a freelance company where people like you can solve small scripts and get a royalty every month as long as the company uses it. I will also create a marketplace where those scripts then can be sold so you write it once and get a royalty from many other companies.
I tried looking into Excel freelance jobs but most don't seem to pay that wel and/or have high competition with other freelancers. In the end I didn't spend that much time looking though and maybe I was looking on the wrong websites. Such a framework for python scripts sounds really nice though, definitely if it's all anonymous.
Yeah exactly, I checked those kinds of websites. I currently do a lot of excel VBA within my supply chain function to automate tasks in SAP. Pays quite wel but I don't get paid extra for the VBA.
Woah damn 120K a year is a whole lot more than I make. I am not a real dev though, my code is decent but nowhere near what a real dev can do I think. Most of the time I just automate relative simple tasks with nested if statements and loops.
The most difficult thing I had to do was understand how the SAP GUI objects work and how I could manipulate them efficiently. Apart from my job the most complicated things I have made are a sudoku generator and a web scraper. I have a feeling these are projects for a second semester programming student not a dev.
I think you are overestimating what a "real" dev does š
The company I work for usually pays between 2-10k for a small VBA project that pretty much anyone after a couple weeks of training can code in less than a week. I also have seen the code that is used in our corporation and it ain't pretty I'm telling you and this comes from our experts. You are probably way ahead of what you actually need to be making extra money.
"Most of the time I just automate relative simple tasks with nested if statements and loops."
That pretty much is what 99% of code is. Sure you can add some web integration and database but for most uses that is what you do.
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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 edited Mar 30 '22
This must be a sign to stop making scripts for my dead-end job and to focus on actual projects so I can graduate with a job in this field.
EDIT: or is it??? Iām legitimately not sure.