To "Excel" at One's Vocation....

I have learned a lot about Excel over the past month or so. I confess my experience and expertise with the program before the be quite lacking. I like to use it to make lists, but that's about it. The fact that it does math for me endears it to me greatly, as math is one of the great scourges of my life.

I'm not certain the extent to which my new found knowledge of Excel will play a role in my future, but it certainly can't hurt! I am much more of a creative than business type, and the thought of handling my own finances, for example, scares the bejeezus out of me, so I strongly envision hiring someone for that express purpose. However, as I am first starting out, or for smaller, less official things, I can definitely see myself using the spreadsheet skills I have learned.

I suppose what I am trying to get at is that while I don't think knowing how to create a functioning spreadsheet has suddenly imbued me with the desire to keep track of all of my finances and really anything that has to do with numbers in my life, there is a comfort in knowing that I could. Plus, I have a touch of the geek in me- I like to know about and how to do as many things as possible, just for the heck of it.