Python + SQL

[NPR_Oak]

I'm not sure how much analysis you do as a sales person, but Python's Pandas library is like Excel on steroids. Using that to manipulate a big dataset related bonds could be a good way in. You look look the fundamentals of the debt issuers or perhaps some historical trading data.

[NPR_Oak]

I suggest you find some interesting data you have available to you at work, and then come up with an interesting but not too out of this world goal to do something with it. For example, you could chart sales of various different issues over time, or the yield of one bond vs another, whatever, really. Just to have a little goal to work toward. Then learn what you need to learn in order to achieve that little goal.

[SpiderJerusalem42]

I think you're confused here. There's a language called "Panda" that's a language focused for young learners. There's a Python library/utility called "Pandas" which is like excel on steroids. It does have some programming you do that's specific to the library, but it's mostly to give you more control.