The time has come that I knew would eventually come. That point when family, school, and work, didn’t leave anytime for life. The problem is that I had to take a road trip. Maybe it was that life actually didn’t leave time for work or school. Regardless, my 7 month old grand-daughter needed to be visited by her grandpa. So, I am officially out of the running for parent or grand parent of the year, but that’s ok. I was cramming homework in every chance I had available. I must plan better.
I do enjoy the homework very much. I am learning exactly the things that I expected and hoped to learn, and would be painfully disappointed if this was easy. In short, I have never spent the time to learn to code. I hack around in VBA, and can usually make things work. I once hired a guy that his job, at the time was coding, bullet proofing, fixing, and removing the duct tape from many of my coding attempts. He was an amazing hire. We got along great. In the interview, it was super-interesting to hear him dance around how good he was at his job without throwing my coding skills under the bus. He waited until after he got the job to do that!
This week we are learning how to write macros in SAS. I am all about automating repetitive tasks, so this is fun. Coding and anticipating what the code needs to do is still very foreign to me, but this is how you learn. Last week we did a deep dive into SQL. I wish I had taken this class a long time ago. The SQL work is extremely applicable to my day job. Most interns I work with wish they would have studied SQL and Excel harder. That’s what makes the corporate world go round, sad but true. Keep it coming.
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