hi guys
- Thread starter nlwc
- Start date
- Local time
- Today, 12:01
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2001
- Messages
- 30,341
Even if your internship isn't necessarily for database work, having Access in your list of things you can do will make you more valuable to the boss. I was a system admin but for a mainframe where the admin work didn't completely consume my time. So when an Access project came up, I had the time and skills to manage it. Got some very pleasant raises later, not to mention a few commendations from the contractor managers. Now I'm here paying it forward because I owe that to the site and the folks in it.
D
Deleted member 147267
Guest
TDM - did you post that reason why you 'give away your code for free' in the watercooler thread that asked the question? Seems like a good one to me; similar to mine as well.
nlwc - some of us have a lot of links that we refer novices to so that they might avoid making common design errors. If you want any let us know. I figure that if you haven't the opportunity to look them over at work, you might want to do so after hours. Extra study and Access 'play time' should help immensely.
nlwc - some of us have a lot of links that we refer novices to so that they might avoid making common design errors. If you want any let us know. I figure that if you haven't the opportunity to look them over at work, you might want to do so after hours. Extra study and Access 'play time' should help immensely.
thanks guys.
Yes i am interested in learning more. I am a finance and accounting major but after seeing what people are doing in the RPA field, I think I need to make a sharp right turn in order to be relavant in the future. Man the things that are coming up are super scary.
Any advice given will be super helpful. once again, thank you all.
Yes i am interested in learning more. I am a finance and accounting major but after seeing what people are doing in the RPA field, I think I need to make a sharp right turn in order to be relavant in the future. Man the things that are coming up are super scary.
Any advice given will be super helpful. once again, thank you all.
vba_php
Forum Troll
- Local time
- Today, 12:01
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2019
- Messages
- 2,880
what is RPA?? and what is so super scary? most jobs will remain in existence, like urs. finance and accounting isn't going anywhere. it doesn't matter how smart AI gets (if finance is indeed listed in the articles below, i would beg to differ). positions that are going to be ousted very soon are stuff like: travel agents and printing shops. or alternatively, you could review articles like this one (forbes magazine is always a good one):
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmj45ighg/top-20-disappearing-jobs/#63c6106b4bc5
or:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/car...-that-wont-exist-20-years-from-now/ss-AAxHwzV
RPA robotic process automation. Basically what it does is it takes repetitive physical/cognitive work and automates it.
While it is true that as an industry, finance and accounting is not going to go away. RPA is going to swallow most of the repetitive jobs. So humans are going to do the decision making parts while the bots do the repetitive parts, ie staging and analysis.
the problem with that is it creates a system where the old ways of breaking into an industry disappears. For instance, in the past i could start as an analyst, work really hard and move up the chain. But if a bot is doing analysis work and the amount of decision makers on the top remains the same, as it is not more effective to have 10 decision makers rather than 2, then the people who are able to enter highly demanded fields will be chosen based on connections rather than the ability to work really hard.
Unfortunantly I am in the work really hard camp rather than the have many rich friends group. And the movement towards connections being the main factor for success is already happening now. With banks choosing to hire the scions of wealthy families rather than by GPA. Because they know getting the investment of a rich daddy is so much better than investing in a smart guy over many years only to have him/her switch jobs. And now when you can have a bot who is already trained, it makes little sense to hire me.
Hopefully people around the world start waking up to this. If we continue to believe that our punitative systems are in the right and the people who suffer under them are weak whiny complainers, then it wont be long before it all comes crashing down. Sorry to be a debbie downer, but perhaps it is smarter to put people before process. After all, processes don't suffer or care if they die, but people do.
While it is true that as an industry, finance and accounting is not going to go away. RPA is going to swallow most of the repetitive jobs. So humans are going to do the decision making parts while the bots do the repetitive parts, ie staging and analysis.
the problem with that is it creates a system where the old ways of breaking into an industry disappears. For instance, in the past i could start as an analyst, work really hard and move up the chain. But if a bot is doing analysis work and the amount of decision makers on the top remains the same, as it is not more effective to have 10 decision makers rather than 2, then the people who are able to enter highly demanded fields will be chosen based on connections rather than the ability to work really hard.
Unfortunantly I am in the work really hard camp rather than the have many rich friends group. And the movement towards connections being the main factor for success is already happening now. With banks choosing to hire the scions of wealthy families rather than by GPA. Because they know getting the investment of a rich daddy is so much better than investing in a smart guy over many years only to have him/her switch jobs. And now when you can have a bot who is already trained, it makes little sense to hire me.
Hopefully people around the world start waking up to this. If we continue to believe that our punitative systems are in the right and the people who suffer under them are weak whiny complainers, then it wont be long before it all comes crashing down. Sorry to be a debbie downer, but perhaps it is smarter to put people before process. After all, processes don't suffer or care if they die, but people do.
