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My first job as a Data Analyst: Expectations vs Reality
One of the most important lessons of my career…
After almost 5 years in school, graduation was finally around the corner and I was more than ready to put my skills to the test. I wasn’t completely sure what job title I wanted, all I knew was that I enjoyed working with data and solving complex problems. I later realized that I wanted to pursue a career in Data science, but that’s a story for another day.
Shortly after I graduated, I was offered a position as a Data Analyst at a local company. It seemed to line up perfectly with my skills and my passion for working with data, so I accepted right away. I could already picture myself sitting on my desk, doing sales forecasting and creating amazing reports and visualizations.
You could say that I was blinded by the euphoria of being finally pushed out into the real world and I never took a second to, slow down, breath, and “lower my expectations”.
My first couple of months as a Data Analyst involved very little data analysis and…