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Life Lessons I Learned from Working as a Data Analyst
It starts with following the curious mind
Research shows that average professionals spend roughly 80,000 hours at work throughout their entire careers. From Monday to Friday, we spend (at least) around a quarter of our time at work. With this huge time spent, no wonder our work impacts our lives to a large extent. Personally, I feel my worldview and mindset have become more and more analytical.
This comes from the fact that I’ve been working as a Data Analyst for more than 5 years. Over the years, I realize how applicable the Analytics principles and experiences are to our life.
Here are the life lessons I learned and applied in life from my Analytical work.
Life Lessons I learned from working as a Data Analyst
1. Let curiosity guide you
In many ways, Data Analytics is just like a Detective’s work. We’re given some crime scene/evidence pieces/actor’s testimony (or a pile of data in tables, for Data Analysts) and mysteries (business problems for Data Analysts) to solve.
How do we solve them?
Before using any domain and technical knowledge to solve the problem, you first follow your curiosity to…
