HVC--I demand you explain accounting

[fhdz]

Excel is like Texas Holdem.  It takes a day to learn, it takes a lifetime to master.  I'm still learning new things, after 8 years of using it extensively at work.

Yes indeed. Few other readily-available pieces of software offer such opportunity for continuous learning.

[fhdz]

I made a chart for my girlfriend's organic chemistry class plotting four experiment groups over a period of time. It took me 30 seconds to enter the data and probably 4 minutes to turn it into a color-coded chart with legend, etc. When she brought the final writeup to class she had no fewer than 5 classmates want to use the chart instead of their own, EVEN THOUGH THE DATA WASN'T THE SAME, showing her their hand-drawn monstrosities with pitiful, ashamed looks.

I was dumbfounded. It is amazing how terrified most people are of spreadsheets.

[Fate]

Organic chemistry? What is she like 20 years old?

[Eddie Teach]

If so, nice going Fahdiz.

[Josquius]

Excel is pretty easy, and even if you don't know how to do something it's usually simple to google .

I made a chart for my girlfriend's organic chemistry class plotting four experiment groups over a period of time. It took me 30 seconds to enter the data and probably 4 minutes to turn it into a color-coded chart with legend, etc. When she brought the final writeup to class she had no fewer than 5 classmates want to use the chart instead of their own, EVEN THOUGH THE DATA WASN'T THE SAME, showing her their hand-drawn monstrosities with pitiful, ashamed looks.

I was dumbfounded. It is amazing how terrified most people are of spreadsheets.

This was in the 90s surely? That is rather amazingly terrible.

[fhdz]

Organic chemistry? What is she like 20 years old?

No, she's going into nursing school and had to do some prerequisite classes.

Most of the people in the class, to be fair, were probably "like 20 years old".

[fhdz]

This was in the 90s surely? That is rather amazingly terrible.

I wish. It was last year.

[Admiral Yi]

No, she's going into nursing school and had to do some prerequisite classes.

Most of the people in the class, to be fair, were probably "like 20 years old".

Study group at your place.

[fhdz]

Study group at your place.

With stress-releasing pillow fights, of course.

[mongers]

Given my skill set, maybe I should have been an accountant. 

And then I could have got to watch a little bit more of me inside, die each day.   

[Josquius]

This was in the 90s surely? That is rather amazingly terrible.

I wish. It was last year.

Suddenly I feel somewhat better about my employment prospects

[HVC]

This was in the 90s surely? That is rather amazingly terrible.

I wish. It was last year.

Suddenly I feel somewhat better about my employment prospects

don't be. every job requires it, no one checks it lol

[Josquius]

don't be. every job requires it, no one checks it lol

Aaaaaaand I'm right back to suicide again :p

[HVC]

don't be. every job requires it, no one checks it lol

Aaaaaaand I'm right back to suicide again :p

it's still a good skill to have so when you have the job you won't get fired lol