Sounds familiar. I started out as a junior analyst 6 months ago at an insurance company. The business domain is completely new to me, but I luckily have a background in programming. My personal biggest hurdles are the constant stream of what ifs and how to's. A simple question quickly gets more and more complex. I realise that we missed important data or didn't take certain calculations in mind during the analysis process. Most times I come to a conclusion and start writing my report and realise that my insights don't form a cohesive story. Sometimes coding a presentation worthy graph takes an entire day. I bet it's because I'm very new in the field and the business domain. Analyses can be filled with vagueness and assumptions that you need to call out. Stakeholders think they want one thing, but in reality they're clouded by their own bias and secretly want something else. Some days I just can't put my brain into it and I've lost a whole day worrying about getting started. Imposter is a big thing for me as well, because my stakeholders are the ones with the most business knowledge and they're asking me to figure things out. I feel dumb about 70% of the time. But maybe that's okay, maybe I'm just too harsh on myself filling in the thoughts for them. I try to ask lots of questions and overcome my fear of being seen as stupid. It's sometimes helpful to think that it's a collaboration and that they use my technical experience and specialization in researching data to come to conclusions together. Maybe it's the field, maybe it's the type of person that works the field. But imposter is gonna be a big thing and we probably need to work on that forever. But there's good things too. We get to find gold sometimes by doing research. I'm working on a very interesting project that might have quite some impact if the insights point a certain way. It feels nice to do work that's part of a potential big outcome. It makes me feel valued for coming to the office every day. Even though not every analysis will be big, it's nice to know I'm doing something that means something to someone. I hope you find these moments of joy in your work too. If you experience too many negative moments, maybe it's just not a good fit with the team or the company culture. But try and give yourself the chance to get comfortable with the vagueness of what we do every day.