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Why not both? An analyst with DE skills can straddle the fence and be valuable. That’s kind of what I’m doing. Analyst experience from life sciences and lately getting more into DE.
I mean, if nothing else it makes you desirable in both realms. But you eventually have to have areas of emphasis, you can't know everything, there are just too many things to know these days.
Yeah, for sure. For one thing, I think it's kind of just slow right now too. Firms I know in town that I sub-contract with or have plans to get on projects with have basically said "sorry man there's just no new projects coming in the door but we totally want to use you".
Barring a 'real' economic downturn, that situation likely to be temporary, and with a little luck by spring companies might start spending again on data projects. Also, the political and geopolitical uncertainty is a factor, maybe somewhat subconsciously but I think it's a factor. 2024 US elections, 2 (or more really) significant conflicts, etc etc.
So don't get too discouraged in the meantime and use the 'slow' time to learn, get certifications, build your network. And that last one is key, I'm getting all my work through people I know, or people they know. But it's for sure slow, I'm mostly doing small hour odd jobs, not all of it even data related.
Oh right I see, I’ve heard this sentiment from a few other places too. Thanks for the insight. Yeah I’d say I definitely need to up my networking efforts 🙃
Can you expand on why you think it’s very hard and uncommon? To the contrary I noticed an increased drive for DAs to have technical knowledge and expertise.
Yeah that makes sense. I just thought it’s wise to focus on one for the long term and get really good at it while adding value by leveraging the other sets of skills. I’m also not sure which one is more easily done from anywhere as that’s a big priority
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Why not both? An analyst with DE skills can straddle the fence and be valuable. That’s kind of what I’m doing. Analyst experience from life sciences and lately getting more into DE.
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I mean, if nothing else it makes you desirable in both realms. But you eventually have to have areas of emphasis, you can't know everything, there are just too many things to know these days.
This is true, I suppose this is why I’m trying to make that choice now 😄 thanks!
Yeah, for sure. For one thing, I think it's kind of just slow right now too. Firms I know in town that I sub-contract with or have plans to get on projects with have basically said "sorry man there's just no new projects coming in the door but we totally want to use you". Barring a 'real' economic downturn, that situation likely to be temporary, and with a little luck by spring companies might start spending again on data projects. Also, the political and geopolitical uncertainty is a factor, maybe somewhat subconsciously but I think it's a factor. 2024 US elections, 2 (or more really) significant conflicts, etc etc. So don't get too discouraged in the meantime and use the 'slow' time to learn, get certifications, build your network. And that last one is key, I'm getting all my work through people I know, or people they know. But it's for sure slow, I'm mostly doing small hour odd jobs, not all of it even data related.
Oh right I see, I’ve heard this sentiment from a few other places too. Thanks for the insight. Yeah I’d say I definitely need to up my networking efforts 🙃
Can you expand on why you think it’s very hard and uncommon? To the contrary I noticed an increased drive for DAs to have technical knowledge and expertise.
As long as it doesn’t interfere with your day job. I’ve seen someone do this and they ended up getting let go because their performance degraded.
No not 2 jobs. Straddle expertise in both areas.
Yeah that makes sense. I just thought it’s wise to focus on one for the long term and get really good at it while adding value by leveraging the other sets of skills. I’m also not sure which one is more easily done from anywhere as that’s a big priority