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A lot of people stuck in places like, say, the accounting department have the soul of a dev. They like technology and want to automate things. And often times w
by asdfman123 5y ago
A lot of people stuck in places like, say, the accounting department have the soul of a dev. They like technology and want to automate things. And often times when they do that, they actually improve their departments quite a bit with stuff like VBA and Access projects (as uncool as they may seem to some).
It works because "real" programming environments have learning curves that are hard to tackle if you have a day job, and even if you do tackle them, IT is probably not going to give you direct database access.
I had a friend like this, who was bored as shit as an accountant. I convinced him to migrate his career to software and now he's in a data science master's program.
- Asymmetryk 5y agoif I may be so bold ( and presumptuous my suggestion is of any value) I wondered if your friend would like the risk and structured securities aspects of actuarial catastrophe risk markets. This pretty much has everything in it, from chaos theory to the statistics of the cadence of liabilities upon the different kinds of financial engineering structure that are used to distribute * the liability and fund the most difficult to reinsure policies in the capital markets. edit : * and package, according to a tremendous variety of fiscal requirements and risk appetites. And naturally covering the most extreme conditions liability payments is historically a fascinating insight into how we developed our world across and binding together such tenuous links.
- asdfman123 5y agoActually he's super into stock options and all that stuff. I think he majored in finance. I was the one who convinced him to do programming (although he's heading towards data science I guess now). Also we had a falling out since then, so shrugs.