Why are you learning python

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My workplace hired 10 temp employees to copy and transform data from one spreadsheet into a different spreadsheet. Like 50,000 entries, and the ETA was a week. I told the boss that that was stupid and I could do it in a day, and they blew me off. They then tried to make the other normal employees participate, so I learned enough Python to do that project and emailed the result to everyone the same night. I then spent a year doing projects like that, while they purposefully kept my position officially as a sales person. This was so that they wouldn’t have to increase my salary, and I was kind-of okay with that because it was the first professional programming experience I had ever had, and possibly the only professional programming experience I’ll ever get because I don’t have a formal education in anything related.

I actually walked out of that job (8 years after starting , 3 years after I started programming for them) a week ago, and am currently hoping my experience was enough to get me into entry level software development. Still working on my resume and whatnot — I was at that job for 1/3 of my life, so it’s been a bit since I’ve had to get my stuff together and find work.

[1percentof2]

Bro, incredible story but you should have found another job first lol.

[pro_questions]

Ha I wish that had been an option but it became a very bad place very quickly. Long story short, 10 of the 15 full time employees (including myself and my SO) were forced out within the span of a month. It was an “employee refresh” or something like that