Comment by fleddr | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fleddr | Hacker News Reader

I do have a cheat code for making money in Europe. Freelance as a SAP consultant.

The learning curve may be a few years, and its soul crushingly boring. But once you're qualified and competent at it, you just put on a suit and take your trolley from one large business to the other, whilst charging 200€+ per hour. You don't have to actually implement anything, only advise.

It's like the modern COBOL. Every sizable business runs on SAP, and it's complicated. The demand for high-end consultants in this space has been there for 20 years and won't go away.

As old man I will express caution that money isn't everything. Personally, I'd prefer digging holes into the ground in the streaming rain as a job over anything SAP.

As a former SAP consultant now Microsoft ERP consultant Id argue on the point "You don't have to actually implement anything, only advise." I remember installing SAP on Linux servers, writing ABAP and Javascript, holding workshops to discuss business processes and then implement these business processes in SAP.

To be honest I haven't seen any SAP or ERP consultant who only advises and doesn't implement or write code and I have been doing this for 10+ years. I think its very interesting job because you will get access and understanding to the most granual levels of very different businesses. I mean you work with from general ledger entries to manufacturing to e-commerce while also understanding all the business context.

You don't have to actually implement anything, only advise.

I'm sure those people exist, but every successful SAP consultant I know in Europe also spends a lot of time coding and implementing.

when I was interviewing a long time, the SAP recruiter's pitch was "if you join, you'll never have to worry about making money anywhere in the world"

spent 5 great years there :) inbox is never empty, but yes I would need to wear a suit again

LOL, Office Space.

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