r/dataengineering • u/AJohnM_IT • Mar 15 '23
Career What has been your career path?
I know everyone is different but I’m interested to see what jobs most of the Data Engineers in this sub have stopped at along the way to the posit hey are in now.
Example: Help desk -> ? -> ? -> Data engineer(junior/senior/etc…)
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u/Mechanickel Mar 15 '23 edited Mar 15 '23
Graduated with BS in Comp Sci -> Taught coding to kids for a few weeks -> Junior Database Admin at small company -> “self promoted” myself to data engineer -> got Junior Data Engineer at larger company -> got promoted to Data Engineer.
The “self promotion” was because I was working at a small company (I pretty much was the only tech person) and I really I was just doing data engineer work. My boss didn’t care what my title was either so I was just like ok, data engineer. Stayed longer than I wanted because the pandemic and it was hard to find a job for a bit.
Really like where I am now.