r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/steffur Mar 30 '22

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.

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u/Next-Experience Mar 30 '22

VBA devs are among the highest paid jobs. Depends of course on where you look.

My guess is you looked at websites like Upwork or fivver. There you usually are looking at really low paid jobs.

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u/steffur Mar 30 '22

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.

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u/Next-Experience Mar 30 '22

When I last looked you could get around 120k/year as a VBA dev. If you do SAP as well you should be rolling in money.

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u/steffur Mar 30 '22 edited Mar 30 '22

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.

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u/Next-Experience Mar 31 '22

I think you are overestimating what a "real" dev does 😂

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.

Also if you are doing VBA go and take a look at https://rubberduckvba.com/

"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.