I used to want to live other people’s lives because I thought they had everything easier and better till I realized mine is just perfect the way it is.
But coming across this question, living someone else’s life right now would be a great help. Not their entire lives but I just want to find out about some things that keeps stressing me out. I literally can’t go a day without thinking about it.
My career path. It took me exploring a few things to decide on data science. But every now and then, I feel what if it’s not actually what I want? What if I explore more and find something better but I have already spent so much time of this journey.
I constantly see people have a sudden change in career paths when you thought they were doing so well and I just don’t want to get into something I wouldn’t be passionate about later.
If I could live someone else’s life, I want to live the life of a data scientist. I want to experience first hand what they do daily at their jobs. I want to feel how it’s like to probably do those things for a long period in my life. Would I want to quit or would I eventually find something I’m more inclined to?
But most importantly, I’m i prepared enough for it? Because I’ve learnt quite a lot of things and some days, I feel like I know enough to start something. Especially when I start a course from scratch, the beginning is usually too easy because I already understand all that but then I also think I don’t know enough.
I don’t know if it’s imposter syndrome getting the better of me or I’m just not ready.
Because I want to believe it’s not everyday at work they are training a model for a project and I also believe you get to learn more on the job.
Maybe I just need to hangout with one for a while to see what they do but if I could get to live their life for a day, it would really help calm me down and focused on what to do.
This is my entry on this week’s weekend engagement challenge by
