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NFR - How do we all earn a crust?

Started by Ron Sheepskin, December 20, 2011, 05:31:14 PM

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King_Crud

#80
Interesting thread.

I work in the city for a financial clearing house. I'm in the bonds and repos operations team. My current role is a bit shite but I should be moving back to my old team soon, which will be good, and I like the company. And not everyone in the city is earning big money and getting bonuses, the majority are plebs like me.

FFCcravencottage

I refuse to say on the grounds it might incriminate me  :033:

Berserker

Quote from: jarv on December 21, 2011, 05:39:22 AM
Nogood boyo   where in the north east?

beserker?    what??? can you explain in english please?

Not sure if this is in English or not as generally IT people don't speak in English as Logicalman will confirm being a DBA!!!

Well I provide functional application (APPS)  and development support for a accounting system called Oracle Financials EBS, so if this system isn't working in someway I analyse what is wrong with it and put if right with the help of people like Mr Logicalman who is a DBA (looks after the background tables, where as I look after the front end, thus the functional side).
Also if somebody wants the system to do something different to what it is doing at the moment, I work out how this can be achieved and configure the system to do that.

My background its actually in Finance and Accountancy but I enjoyed doing the IT side as well so moved more fully into that a few years ago
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Logicalman

Quote from: Berserker on December 21, 2011, 10:55:06 AM
Quote from: jarv on December 21, 2011, 05:39:22 AM
Nogood boyo   where in the north east?

beserker?    what??? can you explain in english please?

Not sure if this is in English or not as generally IT people don't speak in English as Logicalman will confirm being a DBA!!!

Well I provide functional application (APPS)  and development support for a accounting system called Oracle Financials EBS, so if this system isn't working in someway I analyse what is wrong with it and put if right with the help of people like Mr Logicalman who is a DBA (looks after the background tables, where as I look after the front end, thus the functional side).
Also if somebody wants the system to do something different to what it is doing at the moment, I work out how this can be achieved and configure the system to do that.

My background its actually in Finance and Accountancy but I enjoyed doing the IT side as well so moved more fully into that a few years ago

Very well put there beserker, unfortunately never could fully integrate myself in Oracles OBIEE, it just seemed too intense, so I stuck to SSIS/SSRS/SSAS solutions, using .NET. I do now provide both presentation and back-end design and support as is the nature of my job. At least Oracle and SQL are a lot closer than they were 10 years ago, though for the uninitiated, they can easily be compared to Citeh and ManUre as far as rivalry.




Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 10:44:38 AM
Dialler Manager in a Telecan unit for a home improvement company in Hertfordshire, mundane job but it pays the bills. Doing this for 6 years now though and need to move on, but the job market is not exactly great at the moment. Want to do more with my SQL knowledge.

Before that I was a bank manager for LloydsTSB in North London.

What sort of experience do you have, and what are your interests in SQL? e.g. Admin, development, etc.

Blingo

I simply collect peoples rubbish and recycle it.

ffctom_b

Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 10:44:38 AM
Dialler Manager in a Telecan unit for a home improvement company in Hertfordshire, mundane job but it pays the bills. Doing this for 6 years now though and need to move on, but the job market is not exactly great at the moment. Want to do more with my SQL knowledge.

Before that I was a bank manager for LloydsTSB in North London.

What sort of experience do you have, and what are your interests in SQL? e.g. Admin, development, etc.

[/quote]

I use it from both a front end and back end persepctive. All the data on the dialler software is loaded into SQL using the diallers software that links into the SQL Database. I am responsible for ensuring that this data and the call results generated from it is fed back to our data supplier for regulatory purpose. I also am responsible for any changes to the tables, adding any new database table and writing the queries to extract any info the board of directors or managers need from the databases on our server as no one else in our IT dept is qualified to do it. So in a wway i'm a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to SQL, although I did manage to get the company where I work to send in some training course for it this year as everything else I knew and had learned was self taught from Google!!
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AlFayedsChequebook

I work for a very small firm in exec remuneration consultancy.

Good hours, decent pay and good team.

I think working for a small company is the way forward!

Logicalman

Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 11:29:32 AM

I use it from both a front end and back end persepctive. All the data on the dialler software is loaded into SQL using the diallers software that links into the SQL Database. I am responsible for ensuring that this data and the call results generated from it is fed back to our data supplier for regulatory purpose. I also am responsible for any changes to the tables, adding any new database table and writing the queries to extract any info the board of directors or managers need from the databases on our server as no one else in our IT dept is qualified to do it. So in a wway i'm a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to SQL, although I did manage to get the company where I work to send in some training course for it this year as everything else I knew and had learned was self taught from Google!!

You could invest in SSRS to make your job a little easier on the directors info side and SSIS for the ETL solution, both use BIDS (VS2008) for design. Sounds like you have a good take on TSQL so it wouldn't be difficult to get up and running, and if you have anything problematic, just PM or email me.

richie17

Quote from: Logicalman on December 21, 2011, 11:42:55 AM
Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 11:29:32 AM

I use it from both a front end and back end persepctive. All the data on the dialler software is loaded into SQL using the diallers software that links into the SQL Database. I am responsible for ensuring that this data and the call results generated from it is fed back to our data supplier for regulatory purpose. I also am responsible for any changes to the tables, adding any new database table and writing the queries to extract any info the board of directors or managers need from the databases on our server as no one else in our IT dept is qualified to do it. So in a wway i'm a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to SQL, although I did manage to get the company where I work to send in some training course for it this year as everything else I knew and had learned was self taught from Google!!

You could invest in SSRS to make your job a little easier on the directors info side and SSIS for the ETL solution, both use BIDS (VS2008) for design. Sounds like you have a good take on TSQL so it wouldn't be difficult to get up and running, and if you have anything problematic, just PM or email me.
see, I thought that was an IT satire. But perhaps it wasn't?


ffctom_b

Quote from: Logicalman on December 21, 2011, 11:42:55 AM
Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 11:29:32 AM

I use it from both a front end and back end persepctive. All the data on the dialler software is loaded into SQL using the diallers software that links into the SQL Database. I am responsible for ensuring that this data and the call results generated from it is fed back to our data supplier for regulatory purpose. I also am responsible for any changes to the tables, adding any new database table and writing the queries to extract any info the board of directors or managers need from the databases on our server as no one else in our IT dept is qualified to do it. So in a wway i'm a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to SQL, although I did manage to get the company where I work to send in some training course for it this year as everything else I knew and had learned was self taught from Google!!

You could invest in SSRS to make your job a little easier on the directors info side and SSIS for the ETL solution, both use BIDS (VS2008) for design. Sounds like you have a good take on TSQL so it wouldn't be difficult to get up and running, and if you have anything problematic, just PM or email me.

will take a look into it, cheers
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Auditor specific experience and training in the Public Sector work.

In a past life I was a biochemist at Oxford, Warwick and Bristol unis

fulham1234

I am a professional footballer playing for chelsea - my real name's frank lampard...


LBNo11

Quote from: fulham1234 on December 21, 2011, 12:09:17 PM
I am a professional footballer playing for chelsea - my real name's frank lampard...

...whilst you moonlight as a student at Bristol Uni, great disguise.. :005:
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alfie

Quote from: Ron Sheepskin on December 21, 2011, 09:15:35 AM
Quote from: alfie on December 21, 2011, 08:11:45 AM
I work in a hospital  pharmacy as a patients medication councillor and high cost medication administrator

(previously at a well known London football club)


You were a medication councillor at a well known London football club?

I smell a tabloid story here...  :011:

NO NO NO  i work in pharmacy now,  i did not do anything clinically at a well known london football club,   i was coaching there and administrator
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dishEJtheRock!

Quote from: alfie on December 21, 2011, 12:51:17 PM
Quote from: Ron Sheepskin on December 21, 2011, 09:15:35 AM
Quote from: alfie on December 21, 2011, 08:11:45 AM
I work in a hospital  pharmacy as a patients medication councillor and high cost medication administrator

(previously at a well known London football club)


You were a medication councillor at a well known London football club?

I smell a tabloid story here...  :011:

NO NO NO  i work in pharmacy now,  i did not do anything clinically at a well known london football club,   i was coaching there and administrator

i am currently a pharmacy student myself


sunburywhite

I was a pharmacy student when I was younger, I specialised in Rizlas
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finnster01

I was also into the pharmacy business but more on the Moroccan Black side
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