I make spreadsheets for fun, what is wrong with me?

Literally dozens of spreadsheets just for fun, some I update daily almost like journalling

Also can't this get me a job? Like I don't know if I should do my hobby as a job but working in the spreadsheet mines in a cubical farm sounds like a dream come true

  • RandyLahey [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The number of people who look at me like I'm a wizard when I try to teach them index/match is astonishing (PS reject vlookup and index/match thought, embrace sumproduct and aggregate thought)

    Hundreds and hundreds of shared spreadsheets and not a single one in an actual table, stuff manually copied over between five different spreadsheets, manually highlighting duplicates etc etc

    I can't blame people, cos you're expected to know all this stuff but nobody actually teaches you, but so much of what goes on in an office is manual spreadsheeting that could be done in five seconds with a pretty basic formula. Of course the cruel irony of capitalist hellworld is that you don't want to automate someone out of a job, but damn