I've read stories about people leaving the restaurant/service industry working as chefs/cooks, doing some boot camps in cybersecurity for a few weeks/months, and getting jobs in that field. Seems odd and scary, but hey, if it works, it works, I guess. lol. I'm not sure what they're doing, but I said that to say, like T-Perro said, sometimes you just need to get your foot in the door even as entry-level and then work your way up or find other opportunities. Most data scientists I've worked around had strong math and comp sci backgrounds. From what I understand, this is a great time to take advantage of a career or job change, though.
I mean I'm not going to tell you where I work ffs. I'm in healthcare. The role I have now was pitched to me as being heavy on predictive modeling, then when I started it became more about just making reports using various reporting tools. Now it is a combination of report stuff and data governance / process. It's not what I was planning on doing but I've realized that I don't hate it. Tbh, I haven't used Python, R, or SAS at work in over a year now. It's more been things like SQL (for pulling data) and Tableau for reporting on it.
Nice! Healthcare sounds better than O&G. Right, I don't care where you work lol. I was just more so wondering how you picked up those coding skills and if you had a masters in comp sci, data science, whatever. I think that sort of info might be useful to @SuraGotMadHops wife. I think there is a one year masters in data science program at UH that his wife could explore if she is unable to find a job. I am not sure of others though.
Heard some good things about that program @ UH or UHD. I forget which one. I don't do Data Science though, I'm in IT.
no joke. college has been the worst $-wise, ~ $50k a year for four years times two daughters . . . that's a lot of fuel for retirement burned. And still burning it. My younger brother and his wife, both engineers without kids, each retired years ago at 50. I will be working for quite a while yet. With luck I won't die in the harness.
I am self-taught. I used online stuff like Coursera, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, YouTube, etc etc to learn the basics and branched out from there. I went for a Masters because I needed the document to get a better paying job, not because I needed more schooling (although, it did help). I wouldn't say healthcare is better, but it is more chill. I personally prefer the environment in healthcare to o&g. Plus I don't have to fearfully watch the price of oil! That is nice. People always get sick - no more layoffs for me.
https://www.uhd.edu/academics/sciences/Pages/master-in-data-analytics.aspx @SuraGotMadHops . Believe this is it.
There are shortages in cybersecurity, like DS. Takes a bit of practice and specialization that I'm too lazy to move into, I wonder if they can do the heavy math part...
I would wager: no. Anyone who is mostly self taught or did a bootcamp does not have the ability to understand the intricacies of a lot of this stuff at a detailed level. I have multiple graduate degrees in quantitative subjects and sometimes depending on the subject matter some of the math still makes my head spin. That is not to say that those people are not competent at a lot of facets of the job. They can be, especially for more of the reporting side of things. It is just that when something goes wrong or you need something very robust, those are not the people you really want at the helm. All this to say, I think the whole thing is multi-faceted. Just have to figure out how to get your share of the pie.
Not sure if trolling, but: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions Some people are very proud of this stuff. But after having been in school for literally 13 years after high school, you wouldn't catch me near this bullshit with a ten foot pole lmao. Could be a good way for people without experience or higher level degrees to prove their worth though.
Hero. My day job has attempted to promote me back to a manager position twice in the past year. I’ve declined for two reasons: My day job is pretty cushy with 100% work from home and 95% self paced (because I’m a proven veteran who gets **** done). I did mention that I liked what I was doing but not the cushy part. The people I would report to are control freak micromanagers. I did mention this to other directors that I am friends with in confidence but with the knowledge that it would get back to the top brass. It looks pretty bad when a rockstar employee turns down a job because their future boss sucks as a manager and leader. It’s all about baby steps in changing the workplace environment. The era of my way or the highway dictator style managers is (hopefully) going out with the Boomers.
For me to quit my job, it would take me to obtain a lot of money - enough for me to live the rest of my life and live comfortably. I don't see that happening but fortunately, I really enjoy my job. I have been through career changes and have been looking for employment at various times in my life. One of the first lessons I learned was that money is not everything. I left a job in 2010 for a 50% pay increase and was only there for 7 months before getting canned. It is the only job I got fired from and it was a major factor in leading to the deterioration of my marriage (first). Luckily, I got a teaching job at a community college over 4 years ago (which is what I have always wanted to do even when I was in college) and I am making almost the same amount of money that I made when I left my job that I had have over 10 years back in 2010. Obviously, you don't go into teaching for the money but the work balance life that I have is so much better and healthier and with the benefits and time off that I have, I am so much happier now. Sadly being 48, I think about how my father was able to retire at the age of 52 because he started teaching when he was 22 (he got his 30 years in and left). I am looking at working until I am in my early 70s but that's okay. Always try to read about a company before you go for an interview - see if they have ratings on indeed or reviews. You will find a lot about a company if you do your research ahead of time. And for goodness sake, never quit a job unless you already have another job in hand.
For the first time in my professional career I finally have a manager that won’t micromanage me as long as I’m above my quota. It’s been amazing. About to hit my quarterly number this month so November and December are going to be fun. It would be difficult to get me to quit this job. But once we IPO it’ll all change.
One of the perks of working from home is it's harder to be micromanaged. Also, I feel like the antiwork subreddit is full of those same texts chains with the words varied slightly. Makes me wonder how many are fake.
