Current Events > the principal just assigned me intern work wtf =(

(+) Yeah! (+)

he sent me literally 2000 spreadsheets and said to combine all of them into 1 spreadsheet, literally 2 weeks worth of copy and paste work....wtf

and our intern position is vacant atm so i can't pass this down any further...
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At least you can add it to your resume.

Learn to code. You can easily automate something like that in like an hour.

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ZT6 posted...

At least you can add it to your resume.

this is useless on my resume lol, i do so many more cooler and more important things

s0nicfan posted...

Learn to code. You can easily automate something like that in like an hour.

i have no idea how to code, i'm not that kind of engineer =(
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No_U_L7 posted...

this is useless on my resume lol, i do so many more cooler and more important things

That's what you should have told the principal. Put it in an email reply and cc his boss.

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ZT6 posted...

That's what you should have told the principal. Put it in an email reply and cc his boss.

im the employee with the least senority, otherwise this would probably go to our intern

i can't CC his boss, his boss is one of the 10 most important people in (engineering) government lol
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s0nicfan posted...

Learn to code. You can easily automate something like that in like an hour.

Nah, more like 5 minutes lol

No_U_L7 posted...

im the employee with the least senority, otherwise this would probably go to our intern

i can't CC his boss, his boss is one of the 10 most important people in (engineering) government lol

Are you private side or government?


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No_U_L7 posted...

i have no idea how to code, i'm not that kind of engineer =(

https://towardsdatascience.com/merging-spreadsheets-with-python-append-f6de2d02e3f3

That entire task of yours can be replaced with a single script that will always work, and turn 2 weeks of copy-paste into a 5 second activity.

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ZT6 posted...

Are you private side or government?

government, i used to be private
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s0nicfan posted...

https://towardsdatascience.com/merging-spreadsheets-with-python-append-f6de2d02e3f3

That entire task of yours can be replaced with a single script that will always work, and turn 2 weeks of copy-paste into a 5 second activity.

idk how to do python =(
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No_U_L7 posted...

idk how to do python =(

Well, you have 2 full weeks to learn just enough to understand the script and implement it for your task:
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python-3


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Dont even need to code and just google "macro for combining multiple spreadsheets"


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s0nicfan posted...

Well, you have 2 full weeks to learn just enough to understand the script and implement it for your task:
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python-3

actually in the link you gave there's a program for combining spreadsheets, that's very helpful, thanks!
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Like others have said, this sounds like the perfect opportunity to learn python. It could also make a decent anecdote for a future interview.

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Polycosm posted...

Like others have said, this sounds like the perfect opportunity to learn python. It could also make a decent anecdote for a future interview.

this is absolutely 100% true

however i'm extremely already solidified in my career and don't necessarily need additional skills like python (they would help)

so i'm gonna take the easy route lmao
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No_U_L7 posted...

this is absolutely 100% true

however i'm extremely already solidified in my career and don't necessarily need additional skills like python (they would help)

so i'm gonna take the easy route lmao

Spoken like a true government employee.

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s0nicfan posted...

Spoken like a true government employee.

Can't deny it
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No_U_L7 posted...

Can't deny it

I get it, and I can't blame you for it. Government work is basically minimal oversight, a guaranteed pay raise structure, low effort yet also extremely high job security with decent benefits. It's the place people go to settle when they've decided their aspirations have become eclipsed by their laziness. It's a very tempting proposition to a lot of people, with the only real trade-off being that you're making less than you would in private industry and your pay has a ceiling.

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s0nicfan posted...

I get it, and I can't blame you for it. Government work is basically minimal oversight, a guaranteed pay raise structure, low effort yet also extremely high job security with decent benefits. It's the place people go to settle when they've decided their aspirations have become eclipsed by their laziness. It's a very tempting proposition to a lot of people, with the only real trade-off being that you're making less than you would in private industry and your pay has a ceiling.

Thats like 90% true, except in engineering pay is much higher in gov. If you're a high level project manager that brings in clients working private, then your pay will be much higher. Otherwise you get paid more by gov, its more of an "optics" thing where they want engineers with PEs and are willing to pay for it. When maxed out i make 50% more than an equivalent engineer working private (at least this is true in my region).
So yeah thats a huge difference, but you are otherwise correct
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