>>>don't like authority or menial/boring work.
>>
>>>Torn between accounting with a statistics minor or getting
>>into
>>>computer programming.
>>
>>
>>them things don't go together
>>especially if you're just starting out as a jr programmer
>>you will be the bottom person on a team
>>you will have a senior person tell you what to code and how
>to
>>code it
>>
>
>They actually go great together.
>There's been an explosion of statistics in programming in the
>form of data science and big data.
>




generally speaking,
what you're talking about isn't "sexy"
accounting?
statistics?
comp programming?

those are not "sexy" things to general public
that kinda shit gets me hard so that's why i've been in the field this long
and that "data scientist" title is bullshit to me
it's like ppl in nyc and san francisco always finding "cool" new names for the same old neighborhoods
SoBro
SoMa
SoCo (south of congress for my austin heads)

i handle "big data" daily
literally millions of patients im filtering through
tens of thousands of fields across dozens of databases in different settings Oracle, SQL Server and SAS
i'm a statistician
i provide analytics to Big Pharma
i just don't find this "exciting" once you write the same code for different clients multiple times
but maybe i'm pessimistic and jaded as i've been doing it almost 15 years
if i went to a new company it would be exciting for the first year i'm sure


there are always exceptions to rules
but chances are he is going to need to "prove" himself before someone drops a $500,000+ project in his lap to be in control of