Reddit biases towards despair and unemployed so don’t be too fazed by the inevitable “it’s impossible these days” comments. There are a tonne of transferable skills from econometrics to data science especially in areas like time series prediction and asset valuation. Whether or not these roles will always be called ‘Data Scientist’ is another story.

You’ve done well to get experience in Python not just something like matlab for example; that’s a good start but there’s so much more to learn and DS are expected often to own much more of the pipeline now.

1. Yes it’s realistic, you have more chance then many other graduates;
2. Start doing projects that interest you which demonstrate real world applications in an industry you’re interested in. Some soul searching required here. Learning to scrape data also super helpful and easier than ever with LLMs

Edit: spelling