Why Data analysis?

Everyone is struggling, and jobs are vanishing everywhere.

A few years ago no one could have even imagined that software engineering jobs would be totally decimated by the rise of AI. shops and restaurants are closing, almost every company is downsizing and there doesn’t look to be any change in the future.

In this environment, there has risen a lot of “get rich quick” schemes, all of which promise full flexibility of working from home while earning a decent salary. These include things like drop shipping, copywriting, crypto, foreign exchange trading and so on.

A “hustle culture” has emerged where people are encouraged to have at least one side business in order to supplement their income. this sounds attainable and relatively easy to do, but in reality the amount of effort and other investment required to make something worthwhile is too much for most people, plus since everyone is doing the same things, competition is fierce for scraps.

The best “sweet spot” is to have a skill set that will allow you to earn a reliable, liveable income either as a freelancer, a permanent employee or running your own business while giving you the flexibility you need to fit in with your personal lifestyle situation.

Data Analysis ticks all of these boxes.

As a data analyst, I have been able to afford to buy my own house, my car is fully paid off and I am able to provide my family with a standard of life that I can be proud of. I work entirely remotely so I can be a full part of my kids’ lives – taking them to and picking them from school, being able to spend time with them and never being too tired after work to enjoy their company. You will have your own goals and ambitions, mine was simply to be a father that my kids could look back on one day with happiness.

The thing is, I am nowhere near the best data analyst, or the most knowledgeable. I began my career in data as my first “real” job out of university and everything I know, I had to learn on the job.

My real skillset, which has kept me in employment since 2008 through the credit crunch, through COVID and through whatever was going on in the world, was my ability to become really good at the things that are actually important to know as a data analyst, and communication/ teambuilding. Other candidates who might have been a hundred times superior to me in coding SQL and Power BI did not get the job while I did, because I was able to perform better in interviews and understand the core needs that the company was trying to fix by hiring a data analyst.

I decided therefore to build this course to teach others the skills that benefitted me.

You do not need to be an expert to get work as a data analyst. You just need to be able to do the work that the employer requires from you, which are almost always the same no matter where you work.