reality canvass: VBA as career? VBA as extra skill in another career?
Hi folks,
Just fell victim to the recession and joined the unemployed, so pondering my options. Among the more appealing is doing more VBA - the idea is to write custom data-analysis tools to expedite analyses that would otherwise be done slowly by hand in Excel. I've been hacking solutions together for years as part of my job & wondered whether this might be plausible replacement career (with emphasis slightly less on the 'hacking' bit, obviously enough) But I need a reality check - which is where as many members as would care to reply come in .... .... how many people on this group use VBA 'merely' (sorry) as part of ANOTHER job? .... how many actually do VBA AS their job? - can I invite advice/reality check as to the viability of my 'brainwave'? I guess what I'm looking for is some hands-on advice from those who actually make their living from VBA ... what does it take to make this work? What's the going rate for projects of what complexity? How do you identify your clients? How do they get charged? Am I asking the right questions? It's early days, I need to decide which way to turn, so your every suggestion, observation and experience shared is welcome Thanks in advance Matthew |
reality canvass: VBA as career? VBA as extra skill in another care
Matthew,
I don't know about an entire career just with VBA, but I think you're on the right track. I too am an economic fall out. I've convinced my self that there is a market in automating many of the functions accountants and controllers do. Having worked as a controller for 18 years, I know much could be done, but I didn't have the time to fix it. Now, I'm working to launch a company that addresses these issues as well as business process redesign and simple business intelligence (light data mining, automated KPI's and automated high level period-end reporting ). Comments appreciated "Matthew Dodds" wrote: Hi folks, Just fell victim to the recession and joined the unemployed, so pondering my options. Among the more appealing is doing more VBA - the idea is to write custom data-analysis tools to expedite analyses that would otherwise be done slowly by hand in Excel. I've been hacking solutions together for years as part of my job & wondered whether this might be plausible replacement career (with emphasis slightly less on the 'hacking' bit, obviously enough) But I need a reality check - which is where as many members as would care to reply come in .... .... how many people on this group use VBA 'merely' (sorry) as part of ANOTHER job? .... how many actually do VBA AS their job? - can I invite advice/reality check as to the viability of my 'brainwave'? I guess what I'm looking for is some hands-on advice from those who actually make their living from VBA ... what does it take to make this work? What's the going rate for projects of what complexity? How do you identify your clients? How do they get charged? Am I asking the right questions? It's early days, I need to decide which way to turn, so your every suggestion, observation and experience shared is welcome Thanks in advance Matthew |
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