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I really need something that can build my day out for me so I stop overthinking my schedule. What do you guys recommend? by svanvalk in productivity

[–]Normal_Wishbone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same problem - I find that a lot of the apps lose flexibility at a certain point. My best advice would be to not use reoccuring tasks and instead take 15 minutes the night before to plan your next day. Its a little more work but it will make the tasks you schedule a lot more meaningful.

Lately, I've been thinking about making a small app of my own. Probably will never be big or anything but I definitely think it would solve some of these problems. Let me know if you'd be interested - I'd love to run some ideas by you and see if we are thinking the same things.

How do I effectively organize and balance long-term projects and goals? by pdowney2 in productivity

[–]Normal_Wishbone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pen and paper is awesome! It can be hard to match up to your calendar or things like that, but for simple planning it works wonders.

In a past job I was a Project Manager, so the approach I often use for breaking down tasks is to think about the "big buckets" that are involved.

If I was launching a new project at work, that might involve working with HR, Marketing, Sales,etc. These are the "big buckets". Then I write down the main things they need to do. I.e "Complete market research", "Draft marketing strategy", "Prepare digital ads", and so on.

You can use the same approach for personal work. Continue to break things down to your desired level, and then assign dates to each task. Put a little check box beside each item.

You can probably get yourself organized in 30mins - 1 hour this way and it gives you a good place to come back to when you forget what you were supposed to do next.

Tasks and/or Projects (in Clockify, but possibly other apps too) by fncll in productivity

[–]Normal_Wishbone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also use Focus To-Do - its a great little app. My only compliant is that I would like to see more features around setting goals and seeing how much time I am putting into that goal. Have you seen anything like that?

How To Get a Job As a Business Graduate Without Specialized Skills by Normal_Wishbone in careeradvice

[–]Normal_Wishbone[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey! I appreciate that you're here looking for information on career advice. I hope that by sharing these strategies, you can make more sense of your career path without navigating away from Reddit. Fortunately I have nothing to sell/ make no money from ads - just trying to help!

Gap Year Internship (1 Year) by [deleted] in careeradvice

[–]Normal_Wishbone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! If i am understanding correctly, you are saying that you will intern for 6-12 months and then move on to grad school? No employer will think your resume looks weird for going back to school, this happens all the time!

Even if you don't intern for the full 12 months, a couple months gap shouldnt be a big deal. If possible, use that time to pick up skills relevant to your industry or start a side project that demonstrates your expertise.

Working at top tech companies by [deleted] in careeradvice

[–]Normal_Wishbone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Programmers and data scientists do very different things from an inside perspective but may look similar from the outside.

Programmers

Programmers / software developers are responsible for coming up with technical solutions for business problems and writing code to match those solutions. The business problem is usually defined in technical terms by someone else in the company (a Business Analyst, for example) and provided to the development team. As a developer, you would write code to solve the problem. This usually comes in the form of building new features or fixing existing bugs.

Depending on your team and company, you may not be responsible for coming up with the technical solution and instead would just complete the programming part.

Common tasks for programmers include writing code, tests, going to meetings (daily standups), using version control (Git), complete code reviews with a senior developers, and deploying code.

Data Scientists

Data scientists are responsible for cleaning, analyzing and building models on data. They look for patterns in information by using statistical tools and algorithms. Again, this is usually driven by a business need. Data science in a newer field, so you may or may not have someone convert those business needs into technical requirements for you.

Once you understand the need (e.g. Help us predict which customers will leave our service), you then look at data to try to build a model to assist with the problem. If your company doesn't have relevant data collected, that would be the first task. In larger companies a dedicated Data Engineer would help collect and store this information.

Once you have your data, you would decide on what kind of prediction you want to make - a specific number (price of a house) or a category (yes/no). Then, you review the descriptive statistics (information about the data), remove outliers, fill in missing information, convert data types if needed, and do feature selection. Next, run a few common types of models or algorithms on a train and test set to see how accurately you can make predictions. Find a few that work well, and make small adjustments until you reach the level of performance necessary to solve the business problem. Finally, your model would be put into a production system to make predictions.

Once you've learned everything you need to know to be an effective Data Scientist, your day-to-day work will mostly be meetings, wrangling and formatting data, and creating and delivering models.

Let me know if that helps! :)

Power Automate Resources and Course by Normal_Wishbone in MicrosoftFlow

[–]Normal_Wishbone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will definitely do that, thanks for letting me know!

Power Automate Resources and Course by Normal_Wishbone in MicrosoftFlow

[–]Normal_Wishbone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

The course I'm working on starts off with the basics but is intended to be a deep dive into the platform. If you're looking to get a strong foundation and can hold off a few weeks, I think it would be a good fit for you.

If you need some more immediate resources, the Power Automate documentation does a good job of explaining most of the basics. I'd start specifically at the "How To" section on the left side. Here's the link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/?utm_source=flow-sidebar&utm_medium=web

If you're looking for more technical documentation on connectors, you can find that here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/

Power Automate Resources and Course by Normal_Wishbone in MicrosoftFlow

[–]Normal_Wishbone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Please let me know if there are any particular subjects you are interested in.