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From C++ Hobbyist to Excel: Is the "Programmer Mindset" an edge for freelancing, or is the market too saturated?

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In a journey from C++ hobbyist to Excel enthusiast, this user reflects on the challenges and opportunities of transitioning into freelancing. Despite the misconception that Excel is hard to learn, their rapid mastery of nested formulas and dashboard creation reveals a newfound passion for this dynamic tool. However, entering the saturated market of freelancing raises questions about finding meaningful work and competing with low-cost data entry offers.

Hey everyone

My life ig:

I had a jump that my friends consider "downwards" in my field: I've been a programmer for 5 years, although as a hobby, since I really like everything about developing. Recently, I wanted to see what Excel was about. I didn't know it since I always heard "Excel is hard to learn and what-not" (I'm from Argentina), but once I got into it... what a wonderful program. It has a lot of dynamism in formulas and I like it, it's not super static or anything.

I learned nested formulas, their syntax, and how to make dashboards, all in 1 week. I'm not the fastest, since I still don't know the interface 100%, but at least the intermediate stuff until creating a dynamic dashboard with slicers can take me 1-3 hours and while relaxing.

Decided to get home office work from this because of how simple it is, I got into Fiverr, but it turns out it's full of offers, especially cheap ones in data entry. However, those who make dashboards put a "limited number" of formulas, which to me makes no sense, since a project, depending on its difficulty, could take more than 3 formulas, or 2, or 5. It makes no sense to limit the work for a few formulas.

The main question is, since I don't have projects beyond the one I did about international importers and its dashboard, I have no choice but to keep making more of my own projects.

Question:
\* For those who have been in Excel for a long time, do you think decent work can be found?
* How long could it take until the first one?

Since I don't have reviews, my profile looks weird saying I have a decent level without any work haha.
And I don't want to limit myself to the OCEAN of data entry.
I planned to put about 25 to 40 dollars per project and build them in 1 or 2 days respectively to the difficulty (it seems like a fair price for how simple it can be for me). On the other hand, they offer those jobs but MUCH cheaper, or is that the standard? I plan to raise the price once I exceed about 5-10 sales.

Thank you very much for reading me guys, and happy coding.

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