How I Transitioned into Data in 2022

Without a formal education in the field

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I was stuck in a job that was burning me out.

Long hours. Understaffed. Refusal to innovate.

I was an Operations Supervisor with a company that was overworking its employees and people were leaving left and right.

About 80% of the department of roughly 100 people had been with the company for less than 6 months.

The company started off as promising when I joined in 2019, but it never quite recovered from the business impacts of the pandemic in 2020.

By mid 2022, I was exhausted.

I knew I needed a change.

But at the time, I wasn’t sure what that was.

Little did I know that data analytics would become my passion and would eventually be my new career.

My hope is that if you’re thinking about a career in data, my story could inspire you and also illustrate how you can pivot into the field as well.

Enter Analytics

It started out as a genuine desire to become more advanced in Excel. I used it all day, every day. I might as well try to get better at it.

So in May, I completed an advanced course through .