Good afternoon guys,

I just wondered what jobs use Excel and/or VBA skills?

I've been using Excel as a 'developer' for about 18 months now in my day job. I accidentally volunteered to create a data collection form in Excel around that time and I self-taught myself VBA from then, using the internet and great forums such as this along with learning from a lot of mistakes! I already had an interest in Excel, using it to manage my finances at the time but that was it.

I currently work for an Insurer, although I've not touched on Insurance for a long time due to developing Excel programs for the staff to use, to gather and analyse MI/data.

My concern is that there is only so much I can do for this Insurer with VBA and I'm sure I'll be back doing the boring office work again in a few months, which I'd rather not do. I would like to continue using Excel/VBA and learning more, perhaps learning other code too.

As far as I'm aware, I'm the only person in the company with extensive VBA knowledge (although, I don't consider myself to be an expert by any means!). So my problem is, being self taught, I don't have anyone around me to discuss/consult/learn from I don't know exactly what it is that I know?! I don't know much of the 'lingo', like what it is that I do... I only know that I create user-friendly forms in excel which are filled in by users and I use formulas and VBA coding to save the input data to other excel documents, to test it, to analyse it and provide feedback and reports.

I've seen some jobs which state VBA as a desirable, but they are mainly after experience in other things, such as c# etc (I have no idea what all those are!). Some say you need to know VBA best practise, but without having anyone to chat to about Excel, I don't know if I do or not?!

I'd like to move into a full time VBA developing position, but I don't know if a) such a thing exists and b) if my knowledge is enough?!

So my questions are:
1. What jobs are out there that I could do to use my knowledge of VBA coding?
2. What else would I have to know to be able to get those jobs?
3. If I was looking for a job doing this, what would I look for?
4. Could I get these jobs without any qualifications (I have a good degree, but not in IT) or would I need to qualify?
5. If I needed to know any other programming codes, would I be able to learn those as easily as I have VBA?


And lastly, and most importantly:

6. What jobs do all you guys do? Do you do Excel full time? As a hobby?


Any help would be greatly appreciated and looking forward to your comments

Thanks,
ExcelNat