I’ve been on the waitlist for awhile now. I don’t know anyone on it so I can’t get a code, unfortunately. Wish I was

Well that’s a wild sentence

It’s just a playground for the riche to do a music and drug festival pretend poor style. Or maybe it has something to do with a bunch of those hippies that nearly killed climate protestors blocking the road on their way in.

Every Burner I’ve ever met has been one of the most entitled, out of touch, morons I’ve ever had the displeasure of talking to. Let’s see where their “radical self reliance” gets them now.

True. ‘Tis but a poor facsimile of a Blahaj.

the SQL syntax is certainly very straightforward. It’s funny, I find excel really fun to work with. Maybe that’s the Stockholm Syndrome of it being the only tool I’m really capable of applying at work 😅

Yep! I’ve got an account. I really need to give the site a deep dive though and see everything it has to offer.

I don’t even know much VBA (wrote my macros in visual studio using the record macro tool to help me teach myself while I built), so DAX shouldn’t be too jarring!

All this definitely makes me feel better. I actually really enjoy this type of stuff. Working with the data has been really cool and I love learning the new skills. I want a job where I can keep doing that instead of just being a data monkey locked at a 3% increase every year with no bonus.

That Data Model tool is going to be an absolute game changer. Bless you. I can think of at least three use cases in my current system that need this desperately.

I’m going to make myself a little pet project to work more in BigQuery and make my own queries, outside of what the cert has had me doing. The last part of the cert is a case study type project, so I will at least have something to accompany my resume once I start applying.

Also, no kidding about the imposter syndrome. I’m in this weird limbo feeling like I’m being gaslit at work about what I know and don’t know just because no one around me knows what I’m doing. We’re all animal science/biology majors, but everyone else has more lab experience. They claim to want people that understand the chemistry, but I don’t have any clue to it and I am now basically a team and product lead with the computer and analytical skills alone.

Thank you! I will look into Google Analytics and Looker Studio, and Quicksight.

I haven’t done anything with like any of what you mentioned. That’s how niched I am right now. It’s ridiculous. The common sense things in the basic Google cert is far and above the capabilities of my current team in an appalling way. Not surprisingly, my salary is garbage. My priority for the last months has been making myself hireable somewhere else.

Do data analytics positions normally do a skill interview? How common is on the job training for a junior/lower mid level position when you onboard? I have plenty of experience teaching myself what I’m supposed to be doing, but having some skill transfer is much less stressful.