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by akudha
1706 days ago
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Most businesses care about getting stuff done and making money, not about the merits of the tools being used. In one financial firm where I worked, they were using Excel for running financial models (I am not making this up). It will often crash, users constantly complained - but when I offered to rewrite their models using databases and a programming language, I was instantly shot down. They didn't want to touch a system that has been working for a while, even with all of its problems. So they stuck with Excel, even when they had access to a programmer. Programmers can laugh all they want at Excel, Wordpress, PHP etc - but these are tools that get stuff done quickly and make businesses a ton of money. So businesses will continue to use them, even if there are much superior tools around. |
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I don't laugh at them. I see many people more clever than me working with tech I don't like, and making more money than I make. It's completely OK. I even wrote some PHP lately, and while my humble opinion generally hasn't changed (that I'm too dumb to use PHP), it's clearly VERY fast and easy to get started, while there are many people throwing money at you when you are good at it. If you are competitive and can work with weird setups (which is a given for many customers seeking freelancers), and under stress, then why leave money on the table.
Some may take what I'm saying like a snipe disguised as humility, but I'm completely honest. No sarcasm at all.