What do you do for a living?

[Yogi Anand]

Hi Got.Twelve:

What an interesting cross section of answers you received to your inquiry -- and all so meaningful!

Hi Ad:

Good Luck to you in your new job starting in the New Year!

 

[NapoleonDynamite]

I'm a "Risk Analyst" which traditionally has to do with insurance but I don't do anything with insurance so..? Actually I support Fixed Asset Accounting so Accounting is the direction I'm taking right now. I hope to have a degree and then become CPA certified within a few years. I read a cool article about a couple who started a company called TAD (The Accounting Department). They are a full-service accounting department and work from home. They have their clients scan all their docs to them and they keep the books. The company has grown really fast and they are making bank. They work at home from San Diego half the year and from Vashon Island Washington the other half. Nice! Sounds like a good idea to me!

 

[SlinkRN]

I'm an RN who just couldn't stand watching my supervisors do things by hand that could be done SO much easier with Excel. I took some computer programming courses and Excel and Access courses and developed some programs that will help them out - still haven't totally convinced them to use the programs yet (they are a touch computer-phobic), but I'm getting closer! I did attain the title of computer guru on my unit and many come to me for advice about everything computer I love working on my programs and think of it as a hobby that will make me money someday I hope I love being a nurse too though - I work in a birthing center and I get to assist with the miracle of new life (and thanks to epidural pain releif, there's not too much screaming).
Slink

 

[sykes]

Hi Got.Twelve
As Yogi said - what an interesting array of answers, and people - another reason why Mr Excel is such a great site.

I'm a pilot and it's for this reason that I tend to visit the site in fits and starts.
I'm a self-taught Exceller and VBAer, and have found the site very helpful, when XL help has run out, or I havn't understood in the past.
I started out by setting myself the task of automating a simple interpolation task we need to perform at work, and became fascinated by Excel. As I achieved more and more on my ever growing "programme" it became popular with my colleagues, which in turn encouraged me to refine it with VBA etc etc and turn it into a really useful application which is used on a near daily basis now.
My early frustrations with having to start from scratch with Excel (and later VBA) have meant that I really enjoy helping out others in the same position. This is why I tend to make my replies to the new chaps and chapesses, a little more basic and, arguably, long-winded, because I found that the enthusiasm to carry on comes from early (albeit basic) successes.

I tend to only answer posts when I know I'm going to be available for several days in a row, because the less experienced posters tend to need further help even when a problem has been dealt with - often because one completed answer leads them on to the next question.... and so on, and I hate being half way through sorting a problem then "disappearing" off the face of the earth - literally, in my case!