Maybe you're just over it in general?
There's A LOT of baggage and bullshyt I'd like to share, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of someone who's motivated.

I'll readily admit that my knowledge is limited regarding the data science field.
Hell, I'm so over CRUD apps and moving over to hardware.
And the shyt is exciting all over again.
I have no idea wtf I'm doing, but it's great working w/ different kinds of people since this fields is so new.

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

Programming is the art of abstracting the boring.
Laziness is a virtue.
Low morale @ a company is something code can't fix, though - that's a people problem.

>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
>

You're in Big Pharma?
Ah hell.
You're better than me, man.

>
>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

Certainly.
I'm not saying this dude just shows up knowing futures, list comprehensions, and decorators and suddenly folks are throwing $100 bills @ him.

I'm saying that provided he knows what companies to avoid (unlike you and I), he'll do just fine.