What do you do for a living?

[HalfAce]

I run power plants. (Diesel and hydro) Bringing plants on line & off line, moving load around, (etc.) all from a central location in the diesel plant. Essentially, I get to play the most intense computer game in town. (We are a stand alone system, (not on a grid) so if I win, nobody even knows I was playing. If I lose, everybody knows!)

 

[F&s anaylst]

I'm a Forecasting and Scheduling anaylst for call centre also Real time management anaylst in past job- hence the name

still learning excel i live by the title
"jack of all trades, master of none"

excel 03 and 07 xp/vista

 

[DiscoPistol]

I work as an Excel (and sometime SQL) Developer for a small Automotive company called Aston Martin.

And no I don't get a company car and I can't get you a discount!

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

I work as an analyst in shared services for a conglomerate. I'll be going part time in January to pursue a career in consultancy...

 

[Stormseed]

for a small Automotive company called Aston Martin

I don't think Aston Martin is a *small* company by any means

 

[Richard Schollar]

Hmm, seems I never stated what I did in previous posts (too intent on besmirching Rory's (cough! cough!) and Keith's good names ).

A chartered accountant by profession, I work in the Investments & Treasury team of a global insurerer (although i only deal with the UK bit). I prepare commentary on the investment performance of the funds we manage and also prepare a lot of the Board papers and committee papers our senior management require.

What's really annoying is I don't get any time any more to do stuff with Excel in my job

 

[Richard Schollar]

I don't think Aston Martin is a *small* company by any means

Based on numbers of cars produced/sold I'd say it qualifies as small. Great brand though - sucks that DiscoPistol doesn't get a Company Car, but I'm sure he gets to drive the odd one though?

 

[DiscoPistol]

Based on numbers of cars produced/sold I'd say it qualifies as small. Great brand though - sucks that DiscoPistol doesn't get a Company Car, but I'm sure he gets to drive the odd one though?

We're still working on that one! They do have a number of 'Production' cars that can be 'Tested' over the weekend but first you have to justify that your job requires it.....Ideas on a Postcard!

 

[Darren Bartrup]

We're still working on that one! They do have a number of 'Production' cars that can be 'Tested' over the weekend but first you have to justify that your job requires it.....Ideas on a Postcard!

I heard somewhere that Excel can control a DB9. Or was it an Access DB, can't really remember. You better test it out anyway.
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I work for one of the largest county councils in England doing lots of number crunching in Excel, building small databases in Access and trying to convince people that Excel isn't a database, that Access shouldn't be trusted for critical systems and that I can't write the 'god' program - i.e. we're going to give you a workbook in a different format with different everything in it, but can you write something that will just know what to do with the data.

 

[riaz]

first you have to justify that your job requires it.....Ideas on a Postcard!

You could say it is necessary to Bond with the company....