From C++ Hobbyist to Excel: Is the "Programmer Mindset" an edge for freelancing, or is the market too saturated?
Hey everyone
My life ig:
I had a jump that my friends consider "downwards" in my field: I've been a programmer for 5 years, although as a hobby, since I really like everything about developing. Recently, I wanted to see what Excel was about. I didn't know it since I always heard "Excel is hard to learn and what-not" (I'm from Argentina), but once I got into it... what a wonderful program. It has a lot of dynamism in formulas and I like it, it's not super static or anything.
I learned nested formulas, their syntax, and how to make dashboards, all in 1 week. I'm not the fastest, since I still don't know the interface 100%, but at least the intermediate stuff until creating a dynamic dashboard with slicers can take me 1-3 hours and while relaxing.
Decided to get home office work from this because of how simple it is, I got into Fiverr, but it turns out it's full of offers, especially cheap ones in data entry. However, those who make dashboards put a "limited number" of formulas, which to me makes no sense, since a project, depending on its difficulty, could take more than 3 formulas, or 2, or 5. It makes no sense to limit the work for a few formulas.
The main question is, since I don't have projects beyond the one I did about international importers and its dashboard, I have no choice but to keep making more of my own projects.
Question:
\* For those who have been in Excel for a long time, do you think decent work can be found?
* How long could it take until the first one?
Since I don't have reviews, my profile looks weird saying I have a decent level without any work haha.
And I don't want to limit myself to the OCEAN of data entry.
I planned to put about 25 to 40 dollars per project and build them in 1 or 2 days respectively to the difficulty (it seems like a fair price for how simple it can be for me). On the other hand, they offer those jobs but MUCH cheaper, or is that the standard? I plan to raise the price once I exceed about 5-10 sales.
Thank you very much for reading me guys, and happy coding.
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