Love for spreadsheets and coding!

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I really enjoy making spreadsheets and find coding really interesting and wondered if there were any courses I could do to help me learn a little more? Is this something I could earn money from?
Any help or advice would be gratefully appreciated 😊

Following, very much the same here. My partner has fallen in to a job (transferred in company due to injury) which is spreadsheet heavy and is enjoying it, obviously very pleased for him etc but also furious! I am the spreadsheet person, he doesn't deserve such daily excel fun! Just joking obviously, kind of

Lots of free courses on Udemy

Open University has loads of free online courses. It might be worth a browse to see if something floats your boat.

[https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue]]

Sorry, not sure why my link didn't work.

www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue

Heavens yes you could make money for this.

Look for roles as a data analyst or in data science.

I’m a data architect and I get to advise people on proper storage and usage of data. It’s kinda spreadsheets on a massive scale.

Good luck

OP I work as a (sort of) data analyst. I can write a bit of SQL to pull data out, and also use Excel a LOT both for displaying said data but mainly for writing v long if formulas (with the odd bit of concatenate and v lookups) to both compile reports using data from multiple (non matching) sources and check said accuracy of data.

So, yes, thankfully you can make money from it (no idea what else I could do!)

If you want to try out Python, there’s an hour long intro at m.youtube.com/watch?v=kqtD5dpn9C8 which I found to be a really good start.

You might find this thread interesting. I have joined Codecademy, but you do have to pay!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/AMA/4104846-I-learnt-to-code-at-27-AMA?pg=1

Lots of companies encourage esp women into Technology, including my own

Women into Technology Sky

Good luck.

Have a look at job ads near you and see what coding languages they want experience in, then pick one to have a go at. Coding is great because you can make up examples of what you've done to show potential employers.

Nothing helpful to add but I love spreadsheets too In a previous life before children I was actually a programmer but that’s a very long time ago. In my current (non tech) job I get my little pleasures from creating wonderful spreadsheets, there’s nothing more satisfying than a really good formula

You could also see if your work might consider funding you on a data analysis apprenticeship. I did one and it was wicked.

Was about to suggest same as Bertie - look at job ads and see what they're looking for, remembering always that job ads are a list of "nice to have" rather than a need to tick every box. Also lots of stuff to get women into coding/data science and tech, this might be helpful: www.turing.ac.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/women-data-science-and-ai/resources

and also

365datascience.com/career-advice/career-guides/data-scientist-uk/

I've read there is a job shortage for software coders so it's a good thing to train in.

Amazing! Thank you all so much!
I should have added - my current caterer is the complete opposite of this so I’m really excited!!
Will keep you all posted!

Sorry, I mean current career!
(Would love to have a caterer too 😂)

I'm a computer programmer. It's a great job, very interesting, good pay and you'rein demand. Many companies love to hire self-taught career switchers - it shows great ability, enthusiasm and skill. Indulge your techy, geeky side and go for it!

When I first started coding, women in tec were rare and that made the workplace trickier, but nowadays the demographics have changed a lot. I'm currently in a team of 4 women developers, just because it happened to work out like that. So very different times.

My career has been in Technology, I love a good spreadsheet, too. Programming is an obvious role, but there are lots of other ones which require the ability to think through the kind of logic required.

There are at least as many, if not more, testers for every programmer, Infrastructure, database, network and project management roles. Agile ways of working a big thing, too. Testers tend to be more gregarious while programmers tend to work in their own 'bit'.

Roles galore to suit everyone, with serious shortages in most areas. So long as people have the right spot It's not unusual to recruit people with one partic

Ooos...

So long as people have the right approach, it's not so unusual for the rarer skills to recruit people in the expectation that their skills will be expanded by regular, internal and/or external paid training.

All the other benefits of an area always looking for people, good terms and conditions, benefits, flexibility. All good

There's some good courses on Datacamp and Udacity websites - longer ones cost money but you could try some of the free ones to see how you get on. I'm a Data Scientist but I started out just messing about with spreadsheets, now I code in SQL, Python and Spark.