Since I work at a small office, my job could be described as either the secretary or the bookkeeper. When I first start working there, I am not used to working with Excel even though I know how to use it.
However, my boss really depends on using Excel. For example, when we are adding up the total amount for five checks that are received, it seems easier for us to use a calculator than using Excel because it takes time to just open up a spreadsheet. But he would rather use Excel to get the sum.
As working at the same office with the same boss for over two years, now I am used to use Excel as well. Because it helps to organize our office in a certain way such as if there are some invoices that I want my boss to review, I will create a spreadsheet to record them and the file will be saved in the share drive for him to access anytime even though I am not there.
Also, I took a statistics class last semester. It is required to use Excel’s formulas such as Chi-square, Normal, etc… when we were working on questions that are related to distributions.
Thus, I think knowing how to use Excel is really important in many ways. And it is not limited to one career; it could be used in different purposes such as listing, organizing, etc…
Jue Li
