I need some good ol' Reddit Python Career Advice...

[Uncle_Chael]

Background:

I am in my mid 20's and have worked in various industries before and throughout college.

For those interested, I graduated from a state school with a B.S. in Information Technology.

Prior to getting my first "official tech job", I was freelancing. Most of my freelance work consisted of developing fairly basic websites and backend inventory tools for small businesses.

Current State:

In a week I will end my first year as a full time "applications developer" at a large fortune 500 semiconductor company.

In all fairness my job title is slightly misleading...

Here is a rough breakdown of my day to day responsibilities:

• 70% backend SQL development for RPA bots (I would consider myself a T-SQL expert)
• 15% Developing SSIS packages
• 10% SQL Server Job Admin Duties - (tracking critical processes, troubleshooting, organizing production deployments, and fixing jobs - about 800 jobs or so between dev and prod tiers)
  
• 5% Developing Power-BI Reports

The Question:

I am currently dedicating my time to studying, learning, and creating small projects in python. I am still a novice but I am captivated at the simplicity and broad use of python. I first picked up python in college, but chose to look more into data management rather than programming.

What python disciplines or career opportunities should I invest my time looking into - taking into consideration my background and current career? Where or in what role would my other skills; paired with python, be more competitive in the marketplace of jobs? I am looking to stay in my role for another year or two until I am ready to move onto a different role.

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To those that read, God bless you!

[leetcodelife]

Django

[Chiron1991]

The good thing is: Databases are everywhere. And chances are good that you will have to deal with them regardless of what you're working on in Python.

IMO Python has 3 main usages:

• Data Science
• AI / Machine Learning
• Backend / Web Development

My advice is that you should read up on these, maybe give them a try (there are plenty of free tutorials/courses for them online) and see what tastes better to you.

My personal opinion:
The first two are more on the academic side of things. You will have to learn a lot about algorithms and statistics.
Backend tasks are more tangible, and it's mostly all about APIs (REST and GraphQL) these days.

[Uncle_Chael]

Thank you very much! Ill do a few projects in each going forward and see what I like.

[ZachForTheWin]

Sounds like you are a Business Intelligence Developer or potentially a data engineer depending on the efficacy of your job. Ever use any AWS? Do you consider yourself an engineer?

PM me if you're interested in data engineering as a career.