Graduated top university, did internships, landed demanding corporate jobs. Career stalled somehow.
I have a career in "boring" part of finance: financial planning and analysis (where I make big but simple models in Excel - without any statistics or programming involved, just very detailed) and do a lot of various user side related work (key user, acceptance tests, blueprinting, explaining to consultants what broke this time).
Is there any way to swich to something else that pays decently?
I wouldnt like to be a tester, since those should know how to automate tests. I know some SQL and some VBA, but it is primitive stackoverflow driven development - good enough to impress some junior bookkeepers, but a joke when a real programmer looks at the code.
Scrum master perhaps? But how to start. I went to some agile meetups, read the manifesto, read some blogs (that mostly sound like self promotion...) not sure if I should start applying. Especially Im getting old so Im more of a "suit" now.
Consulting is a garbage job it means jumping from client to client + constant travel/overtime (I actually worked in consulting a small bit).
Will local companies or startups pay for someome without experience?
Since I speak English some option is working remote, preferably to an european start up so the hours are sane - constant overtime is a big problem in finance.
I wonder if it is possible to switch to a product owner, or key user or similar position. But how.
I saw that some startups want someone who can fill out those EU-subsidy forms, but I never did that. Yet?
If someone needs a guy with tons of comments about your product (warning those can be negative) I could be that guy. But I have this feeling that everyone wants to be the idea guy and obiously those who can build stuff are much more preferred.
Graduated top university, did internships, landed demanding corporate jobs. Career stalled somehow.
I have a career in "boring" part of finance: financial planning and analysis (where I make big but simple models in Excel - without any statistics or programming involved, just very detailed) and do a lot of various user side related work (key user, acceptance tests, blueprinting, explaining to consultants what broke this time). Is there any way to swich to something else that pays decently?
I wouldnt like to be a tester, since those should know how to automate tests. I know some SQL and some VBA, but it is primitive stackoverflow driven development - good enough to impress some junior bookkeepers, but a joke when a real programmer looks at the code.
Scrum master perhaps? But how to start. I went to some agile meetups, read the manifesto, read some blogs (that mostly sound like self promotion...) not sure if I should start applying. Especially Im getting old so Im more of a "suit" now.
Consulting is a garbage job it means jumping from client to client + constant travel/overtime (I actually worked in consulting a small bit).
Will local companies or startups pay for someome without experience? Since I speak English some option is working remote, preferably to an european start up so the hours are sane - constant overtime is a big problem in finance.
I wonder if it is possible to switch to a product owner, or key user or similar position. But how.
I saw that some startups want someone who can fill out those EU-subsidy forms, but I never did that. Yet?
If someone needs a guy with tons of comments about your product (warning those can be negative) I could be that guy. But I have this feeling that everyone wants to be the idea guy and obiously those who can build stuff are much more preferred.