Dose's Sometimes DIY and Pay Someone Home & Boat Improvement Thread

[Kinkstaah]

I find it stunning someone would leave IT and get into.... mortgage broking?

Is it massively lucrative and easy AF?

[soviet_merlin]

I have to admit I had the same thought as Greg. Is there a sales side to it? As in hussle to make deals and hit targets?

I can definitely feel the appeal of leaving IT though. I say hello to the post lady every day when I'm out with the dogs. She's always out delivering letters around the same time and seems very chill. I somewhat doubt Australia Post is paying six figures though. And it's not cheap running an old Nissan...

[MBS206]

14 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

CSV? Come on lad, I'm all about PowerBI these days.

I would consider working as a PowerBI or ZOHO DataPrep consultant, but nah, I've had enough of IT. Two decades of being in somewhat in an industry I kind of just chose because I had zero guidance when I was younger.

PowerBI you say... I hate that Microsoft shit... Ha ha ha

Have you ever done much coding to build a connector plugin for PowerBI?

Most of the stuff I do at work through our API is all custom scripts, so easy peasy, but PowerBI prefers a custom connector, otherwise it's a pain the ass making a HTTPS endpoint due to all the variations we can have in our system.

We have both API you can call, and web hook alerting. You can receive a post request from on specific events.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

On 16/10/2024 at 9:29 AM, Kinkstaah said:

I find it stunning someone would leave IT and get into.... mortgage broking?

Is it massively lucrative and easy AF?

When you do the hours I do, and deal with the amount of morons you'll understand. Also working for a corporation, they're always monitoring you, they're always expecting you to work and be available for fixed hours of the day and never seem to notice the hours you do outside of the prescribed hours - but in some way they expect you to do it anyway.

I'm just burnt out.

And not really, it's not lucrative and easy AF as you may think, I spent about 2 to 3 solid days per loan (if you were to condense them down). Most of the time you spend going through talking to the client, going through lenders/products/options then the document analysis, etc. then the gruelling part, the data entry 🫠

Once I leave the corporate world, no more fixed salary, as a broker I'm working on $0 salary, 100% comms.

 

On 16/10/2024 at 10:13 AM, soviet_merlin said:

I have to admit I had the same thought as Greg. Is there a sales side to it? As in hussle to make deals and hit targets?

I can definitely feel the appeal of leaving IT though. I say hello to the post lady every day when I'm out with the dogs. She's always out delivering letters around the same time and seems very chill. I somewhat doubt Australia Post is paying six figures though. And it's not cheap running an old Nissan...

Depends, if you worked for a broking company then there would be deals/targets. As I'm a contractor to another broking firm, I just work to my own terms and serve my own clients and if I choose to, I can take leads from the company too. All my comms are clipped by the company I contract with, however they provide me with software, licencing, insurance, branding, etc.

You'll be surprised what Australia Post pays, you'll be crying, especially those who joined a while back, e.g. the boomers and early Gen Xers.

Not to disclose too much, but an average postal truck driver that would do normal hours and pick up 1x day on the weekend would earn as much as me in my corporate job.

 

23 hours ago, MBS206 said:

PowerBI you say... I hate that Microsoft shit... Ha ha ha

Have you ever done much coding to build a connector plugin for PowerBI?

Most of the stuff I do at work through our API is all custom scripts, so easy peasy, but PowerBI prefers a custom connector, otherwise it's a pain the ass making a HTTPS endpoint due to all the variations we can have in our system.

We have both API you can call, and web hook alerting. You can receive a post request from on specific events.

I came from a Tableau background, so at the start fk me PowerBI pissed me off, especially when you have datasets (like sales data) with missing continuous dates, the entire dashboard would shit the bed.

I literally had to create a dynamic date table (using min(invoice_date) and getdate()) to create the table, THEN link all the sales data back to it. Pain in the arse!

But after 5 years of fking about with it, it's ok.. I don't mind it lol.

I'm lucky all the PowerBI publishing I do is all internal, and authenticated using M365 account, no fancy shit required and I just embed dashboards into channels inside Teams.

[MBS206]

1 hour ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

When you do the hours I do, and deal with the amount of morons you'll understand. Also working for a corporation, they're always monitoring you, they're always expecting you to work and be available for fixed hours of the day and never seem to notice the hours you do outside of the prescribed hours - but in some way they expect you to do it anyway.

I'm just burnt out.

And not really, it's not lucrative and easy AF as you may think, I spent about 2 to 3 solid days per loan (if you were to condense them down). Most of the time you spend going through talking to the client, going through lenders/products/options then the document analysis, etc. then the gruelling part, the data entry 🫠

Once I leave the corporate world, no more fixed salary, as a broker I'm working on $0 salary, 100% comms.

 

Depends, if you worked for a broking company then there would be deals/targets. As I'm a contractor to another broking firm, I just work to my own terms and serve my own clients and if I choose to, I can take leads from the company too. All my comms are clipped by the company I contract with, however they provide me with software, licencing, insurance, branding, etc.

You'll be surprised what Australia Post pays, you'll be crying, especially those who joined a while back, e.g. the boomers and early Gen Xers.

Not to disclose too much, but an average postal truck driver that would do normal hours and pick up 1x day on the weekend would earn as much as me in my corporate job.

 

I came from a Tableau background, so at the start fk me PowerBI pissed me off, especially when you have datasets (like sales data) with missing continuous dates, the entire dashboard would shit the bed.

I literally had to create a dynamic date table (using min(invoice_date) and getdate()) to create the table, THEN link all the sales data back to it. Pain in the arse!

But after 5 years of fking about with it, it's ok.. I don't mind it lol.

I'm lucky all the PowerBI publishing I do is all internal, and authenticated using M365 account, no fancy shit required and I just embed dashboards into channels inside Teams.

Ha ha ha, so you're telling me I'll hate it forever? 😛

As we don't use it, and don't need it for ourselves, the only time I need to know it is supporting a client to get it running, as I do all of our client integration support.

 

However building dashboards into Teams is interesting, and something I'll have to look at. We're presently moving over to 365 for exchange, giving all the office software to all staff, and ditch Skype for teams. Again, that's a me job right now too  I've already set some automation from our CRM I to teams, just wanky shit someone wanted within the company to let everyone know when new sales occur. *Rolls eyes* just more stuff to distract other teams that already get distracted too easily 😐

 

 

[Kinkstaah]

Tbh, as someone who has been in IT for 20 years, I too relate to what Dose is saying.

It frustrates me to no end that an Executive EA who manages emails and calendar for some VIP is a whole pay rung higher than the people they trust to implement and figure out email for the entire organization, or lead the teams that implement and support it on a technical level.

It feels mind-alteringly dumb to quit, become an EA, and earn $20K a year more.

I suppose it is what it is. Seeing people in the finance industry earn double for 0 technical skill does drive me a bit nuts. I suppose that's what they get by working in a soul-less, money driven thing. It's like.. what do you people do and why should anyone give a f**k about it. It doesn't provide any value whatsoever.

/rant

IT Workers around the globe should strike at once, that would be f**kin amazing lol.