Don’t discount your other work experiences that aren’t corporate-based – focus on the skills they’ve given you instead, these soft skills are always transferrable and relevant.
There is a tension between conceptual purity and pragmatic implementation of statistics that must be negotiated and interpreted by the analyst, which I find both challenging and interesting.
This afternoon, I have an awesome opportunity to join some of my team members in visiting one of our project sites and meeting some of the great people in the field.
Whether you studied media, arts, sciences, business, or something else, you only need the willingness to learn, great communication skills, and a love of solving problems to thrive in the role.
Getting to work with innovative technology that enables cutting-edge subatomic research to be conducted is still something which blows my mind everyday I’m at work.