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I used to pull 12hour sessions on everquest and suffered none of that
Are we all working the same job? Just spending 8 hours inputing data, filtering and moving columns in excel?
Sounds boring and easy to automate
no no, the learning curve on the business enviroement won’t cover the financial benefits ;) lol jk, of course it is but no one is going to say it
Just automate it yourself and “work” from home.
If I knew how, I would have a real job as a programer. at least I would create something
You can learn how. VBA for Excel is pretty easy to learn on your own.
There’s probably a lot of material online for learning it, but that will most likely only scare anyone off from actually getting started, because it is too comprehensive.
I suggest you just start trying and then search for each problem at a time. You’ll soon learn how to make anything you need.
The first step is to get familar with macros. Enable the developer tab and record a macro. Start with something easy, like searching for a word and format it as bold or whatever. Then stop the recording. In the macros dialogue box you can set a keyboard shortcut so the macro will run everytime you press that key combination. Play around with it.
If you then open the visual basic editor or click edit on the macro, you can see what code was recorded.
You’ll soon realise that even if macros are powerful, they’re also very limited for larger tasks. There’s always something that doesn’t really work as intended when trying to use it on other cases. That’s when you need to start editing the code and this is when the online resources come in very handy. Simply search for “vba” and any function this causing issues and you’ll easily find solutions.
Million tutorials online or if you are lazy you could just post the contract on something like upwork. I answered a post like that and the guy tried to haggle with me. Automating his job and he wants a discount cause he claimed he could get someone in India for cheaper. Told him he should do that. Point is you could do it and as long as you are not him get quality code in short order.
I’m not a programmer by trade but I learned some python and VBA to automate some of the things I do every day. Any time you’re doing some manual shit and think “there’s gotta be a better way” there probably is - just Google how to do that one thing and you’ll build up your knowledge over time.
It’s up to you to decide if you tell your boss or not. I chose to and took on some extra duties along with extra pay so it worked out for me but it’s a small business with a high value on productivity.
Love the huge programming capabilities built into Excel itself but for everything else it’s AutoHotKey FTW. I have a bunch of macros tied to the F keys along the top of the keyboard that can fill out any number of forms with a couple key presses.
Tbf the combination can be worst. During COVID lockdowns I’d spend all waking hours either coding or hand writing for uni, hand writing to teach online, or gaming. Sometimes I’d crochet. I have chronic painful tendinitis now.
It’s off topic, but I do approve of that user name. :)
Droggelbecher
People specialized in hand/arm/rotator cuff bodywork can help you with that. You might have to try a few different therapists before you find one that’s good, but it’s worth it to get relief.
Source- am a bodyworker
Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into it! I’m really grateful to have this new thing to look into, as physio didn’t help much
Yes? But that’s already explicitly warned about.
At work I had to fill out a form which threats to my health could impact me. Next to chemicals or radiation, working at a desk for more than x hours a day was also listed as a potential source of bodily harm.
Exactly. Saying it’s a problem when playing video games doesn’t mean that it isn’t a problem anywhere else. For office jobs specifically, there is already plenty of awareness being spread and most offices give out onboarding material that gives tips on stretches you can do and on how to have a more ergonomic setup.
I’m more likely to take a break with work. Unfortunately that break often entails sitting in the same chair, watching YouTube on the same screen.
I love video games, it my favorite hobby, but gamers get so defensive when someone points out any flaws with the hobby.
Smoking breaks help. But that also kind of defeats the purpose
Same. A lot of work chats and interacting were often meeting that could have been an email sorta things, mostly to get us moving around and active
The boss button is supposed to take you to Excel (or a reasonable facsimile).
It’s like you haven’t even played a game while you were supposed to be working in the 1990s. What are you, under 40?
I used to experience this things from couple hours session on my pc.
I started to rely more on my keyboard which helped with right hand wrist pain ( vim for the win )
I then got a good chair, that when I need to type I have it sit upright so my back is completely straight, and when I take my controller to play a game for longer sessions ( dead cells ) I can tilt it back a little, keeping my back straight and still keep a good posture that doesn’t hurt even after 5 hours ( not purelly 5 hours of just sitting and playing )
What helped me the most tho was getting one of those wrist training things and a pair of dumbells to train the parts off my body that would usually feel stiff after a longer session.
Just cause the article discusses one thing, doesn’t mean it discusses all things
Let me air out two unrelated but similar things that annoyed the shit out of me back in the day.
Your parents then: “That floor mat thingy (referring to the Power Pad) doesn’t count as exercise because it’s still Nintendo. You need to go outside!!!”
Adults now: Middle school phys-ed classes consisting of playing Dance Dance Revolution apparently somehow now “counts” as real exercise.
And,
Your parents then: “The problem with you kids is you spend all day in front of that tube, watching those stupid movies and playing video games all day instead of reading books. It’s stunting your ability to differentiate fantasy from reality!!!”
Your parents now: Instantly believe every damn fool thing they see on Facebook, even and especially when it is clearly horseshit.
So yeah. I can totally believe that some moron would unironically believe that staring at a screen containing an office application is somehow automatically more “wholesome” than staring at a screen displaying any other content for the same amount of time.
Reading ebooks on a phone isn’t as valid as reading a paper book.
To avoid wrist pains don’t keep your wrist midair, most of the time keep your wrist lying on something and relaxed, no wrist pains, coming from personal experience, about posture, sit slightly tilted back like in the chair you can sleep in and relax your spine while slightly lying on the chair with straight spine, and back pains gone too, same with neck, find something to rest your neck on comfortably and keep it relaxed, as for eyes, use yellow tinted glasses they help to transform sharp blue white light of the screen to greenish one which is comfortable for your eyes in long term, every advice coming from personal experience, also use this to not waste your hearing https://github.com/Digitalone1/EasyEffects-Presets
Both can be true
Associated with. So it’s probably just that, a correlation.
Hardly news that sitting still infront of a screen for long sessions is not that great for our eyes. And most people have poor posture so the back takes damage as well.
What you do doesn’t really matter. But what the article wants to get to is that it’s especially bad for children that have yet to develop their bodies.
Kind of like how drinking alcohol is bad for everyone. But it’s even worse if you’re under 25
You still need to research it.
No no, you see. Its okay and normal to destroy your body for other peoples profit.
The problem here is you enjoying yourself and experience happiness. Personal happiness is a sin in capitalism, because it might lead to thoughts of improving your situation, and thats the last thing anyone wants. Just think of what it could do to the shareholders!
/s because I know some dim bulb will take this seriously otherwise.
No no, you see. Its okay and normal to destroy your body for the glorious state.
The problem here is you enjoying yourself and experience happiness. Personal happiness is a sin in communism, because it might lead to thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, and thats the last thing the government wants. Just think of what it could do to the production!
/s because I know capitalism sucks, but communism sucks as well.
Weird how your ‘communism’ always seems identical to capitalism, and literally every critique applies to both.
Almost like you don’t actually know what communism is and have created an entirely fictional external scapegoat to feel like the horror you labor in and perpetuate is morally good, or something.
This isn’t to defend the USSR, plenty of problems, but, like, you never bothered to learn what any of those actually were. Also, ussr≠all communism, some, including the USSR’s official position for the entirety of its existence, would argue that they weren’t communist at all.
Not that you care to use any crotical tjinking or curiosity to scratch the surface of the ideas you were told and discover myriad (mostly still shitty, but way more interesting and exciting) worlds beneath.
I mean, you can still go to former communist countries and see what older people look like. Like in Hungary older people don’t smile much. They learned that if you smile too much it might be suspicious and you could be investigated by the police. Why are you smiling? Do you have access to black market luxuries?
Completely ignoring literally everything I said.
Where is this communist youre arguing with? Are they in the room with us now?
This entire thread is about communism? The parent post is a critique of it? The word is mentioned in every post on the thread?
Read what I wrote, or why even reply to me?
All of it, please.
That’s hilariously wrong, lmao. The majority of people in nearly every post-soviet state wants Communism back, and this number is increased as the population ages.
You don’t have to like Communism or the USSR, but please don’t make things up now, lmao. It’s cringe red-scare fanfiction.
commulism is when the government do stuff
Why would any government oppose people’s thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, when that’s specifically the goal of Communism to encourage, as opposed to Capitalism?
Because Communist governments see any opposition to communism as a threat to their power, so they do not tolerate dissidence even if they claim to tolerate dissidence. It’s just another example of the paradox of tolerance.
How is freedom and self-improvement “opposition to Communism?” Do you have the slightest idea what you’re talking about?
It might not be opposition to communism the way Marx envisioned it, but it is absolutely opposition to communism the way communist governments have envisioned it
How?
Look up East Germany for one of the milder examples.
It might be a joke but you are on point…
its on point, but if I dont /s then someone will come in and think I’m actually arguing in favor of ruining your body for capitalism.
cause every time I’ve ever made a super obvious post, I always get some dimbulb response without the /s
I do far less movement on a computer.
Look at it, think, type something, look at it, think, type something…
Just noticed it a long time ago. I have time to do it right vs making the time to do it twice.
I love spreadsheets (hey, we all have our weird interests) so at first thought this was an ASD meme.
How is liking spreadsheets connected to autistic spectrum disorder? (Im being genuine here)
Good question. I have known many people on the spectrum in my life including several close family members and loving spreadsheets is not something I would attribute to any of them.
Loving spreadsheets isn’t something everyone with ASD loves, and I didn’t mean to imply that, just the hyper-fixated interest (8 hours) on a something which I personally happen to love.
B.3. Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus (e.g., strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed or perseverative interests).
Excel is a highly structured environment that follows strict rules and procedures to generate outcomes, often sorting and making sense of “messy” inputs. Prime candidate for an ASD hobby/obsession.
