Need advice regarding Information Technology self employment

[boater]

I'm a semi-retired Program Analyst (programs as in operations analysis, social programs etc.)

 

I have experience querying and analyzing data from Oracle, Postgres, COGNOS, SQLite and Peoplesoft.

 

I also have significant experience with XML, XSLT and technical writing.

 

Is self employment developing queries and formatting reports viable? It doesn't need to be especially lucrative.

 

Particularly with the XSLT. I know most people don't like working in it, so does it get farmed out?

 

And Peoplesoft: I'm not fond of it, but I was pretty good at listening to mgmt concerns, then drawing data out of it that executives found helpful.

 

Any suggestions of skills I should pickup? I'm thinking R, GIS and other stuff.

 

I do not want to do Web Development or DBA work (seems to be excess labor there).

 

(I am in the Buffalo area and willing to travel)

Edited December 28, 2015 by boater

[BringBackFergy]

I didn't wear my secret decoder ring today. How do I translate what you just asked?

[boyst]

drink ovalteen?

[boater]

I didn't wear my secret decoder ring today. How do I translate what you just asked?

People in IT will know most of it. Those are different IT programs and languages.

drink ovalteen?

[DC Tom]

R is gaining popularity. But it requires some serious statistics knowledge.

[/dev/null]

R is gaining popularity.

 

 

Especially among software pirates

 

Arrrrrrrrgh!

[plenzmd1]

I would think there is a board where short term gigs are posted. It has been a long time for me, but I did staff aug sales in the late 90's, maybe you should send your resume to a bunch of those guys. I have no clue how that business has changed, but we used a bunch of 1099 folks back then.

 

Maybe something like this

 

https://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-Programmer-jobs

Edited December 29, 2015 by plenzmd1