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by carlmcqueen
1190 days ago
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The fear of language model AI takes me back to my original fear when I joined a data science team at a huge bank with just a bachelor's degree and five years of experience. I was embedded in the mess of databases created by hundreds of large bank mergers. I was working with really, really smart PHDs and was doubting my hiring to the team. I felt like a lot of these guys had forgotten more than I'd ever known. During my time in that job, I realized that my experience in navigating the complex databases from working with the business and operational teams gave me an advantage. I took my domain knowledge for granted and was able to work on the problems at hand much faster than the highly intelligent colleagues who relied on IT/DBAs to write their queries. They often had to go back and forth for a couple of days to clarify their requests, leading to misunderstandings and delays. In the end, I fit in just fine, held my own, and was aware of my individual talents. I enjoyed learning from the PhDs, and they were happy to teach from their backgrounds. A lot of the experience from the big bank has 0 transferability to any other company. What made me stand out was I knew which tables of the gigantic data environment were the best to use, I had hundreds of already built queries for many different problems and I was dependable. It got me really far before I went off on my own. |
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That's one of the beauties of IT work - for almost all of us, unless you shoot your own foot continuously, maybe 95% of our skillsets are easily transferrable not only to another employer, but also to another domain.
Of course if you willingly position yourself to some tiny niche that makes you unfireable or just follow your passions unchecked, you may end up in similar situation... an advice, for an easy life don't do that, rather accept potentially slightly lower pay and enjoy life more, its anyway damn too short