Clip Replay: Where does Tableau Tim Work - 2023 in Review

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0:02And you get consulting work through

0:04LinkedIn as well.

0:05I actually don't work for myself.

0:09I work for a company.

0:11I work for a company called Aimpoint

0:13Digital.

0:13Let me just tell people about them because

0:16you might as well

0:17because you're probably knowing and want to

0:19know what I do for a living.

0:21So Aimpoint Digital, based in Atlanta,

0:24America.

0:25We have a UK office as well.

0:27And if I go to this, this is a good sort of

0:33dynamic.

0:34Say, analytics, that's called the division

0:39or pillar that I work for.

0:40Decision science, data engineering and

0:42infrastructure and strategy.

0:44Those are like the four different things

0:45that we do.

0:46And the great thing about that is I get to

0:49work with people

0:49who are good at all these other things that

0:51I'm not good at.

0:52So I learn a ton of things from them.

0:54And one of the reasons I came into the

0:57company is because I wanted to be exposed

0:58to more interesting uses of tools in the

1:03analytics space

1:04beyond just Tableau and Alteryx,

1:05which is sort of what I was doing a lot in

1:08my previous role.

1:09So I've learned a ton.

1:12It's just I can't tell you how much I've

1:14learned this year alone

1:15since sort of moving over.

1:17Like any company, like any consulting, I've

1:21been a consultant for 10 years.

1:22I can't sit here and tell you consulting is

1:24an easy gig.

1:25I'm not the kind of person to go out and

1:27sell myself.

1:28And I'm not good at that, actually.

1:30I'm good at communicating. I'm good at

1:32making content.

1:32And so that's what I do.

1:35And a lot of people ask me, hey, you've got

1:37this 70,000 subscriber channel.

1:39You could just click your finger on Fiverr

1:41and get like a thousand pounds an hour and

1:43do this.

1:44And it's like, really? Well, the problem

1:46with those kinds of gigs

1:47is you don't work on the really interesting

1:49stuff.

1:51Right. So, yes, on Fiverr, you might be

1:53asked to help out

1:54with a Tableau dashboard rebuild.

1:56Yes, you might be asked to like to do a

1:57couple of things.

1:58But in order to do some really ambitious

2:01aspirational work,

2:03you need to be part of a much bigger

2:04company

2:05with a much bigger pedigree of delivering

2:07results.

2:07And that means you're part of a team.

2:09And teams tend to work at really reputable

2:12consultancies

2:12like your Accenture and so on and so forth.

2:14I worked at Accenture. It was a great year

2:17and a bit.

2:18I wouldn't go back there for various

2:19reasons.

2:20But the people I worked with were fantastic

2:22.

2:22The work I did was really super interesting

2:24.

2:24But just the dynamic in the company just

2:26meant

2:26that I knew I was going to hit a dead end

2:27very, very, very quickly.

2:29And so, Aimpoint is just fantastic.

2:33They're not paying me to say this.

2:35I am an employee, so maybe I'm biased a

2:38little bit.

2:39But yeah, you can see the tools that we

2:40work with here,

2:41the partners that we have.

2:43And there's also like a, I'm not going to

2:46call it a startup like feel,

2:48but we are a very small company compared to

2:51other consultancies.

2:53So, I think probably around 80 people.

2:58I don't know the exact number, but if you

2:59actually,

3:00for I don't have to guess, go to our team

3:04and you can count the number of people.

3:06So, this is our team essentially.

3:08And if you scroll down, you can click on

3:10names

3:10and see what people do.

3:12I think this is in order of when people

3:14have joined.

3:15So, you can see I've joined all the way

3:17down here, right?

3:18And since myself, everyone after me has

3:21joined since.

3:22So, also growing really, really quickly.

3:24And I think that's super interesting for a

3:26consultancy

3:27in the current climate.

3:28It's super rare really that consultancies

3:30are growing

3:31as much as we are and as quickly as we are.

3:33And in my opinion, doing well.

3:36So, go check out Aimpoint Digital.

3:39It's where I work.

3:41And you can find out more about sort of the

3:43core things that we do.

3:44So, a little piece of important context,

3:47I think to explain to people why I don't go

3:49out

3:50and sell myself in fiber.

3:52I don't need to.

3:53Aimpoint keeps me more than busy and

3:54entertained

3:55with some really interesting, amazing

3:57challenges.

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