[melvinroest]

I switched to becoming a data analyst. It's odd, I feel more appreciated too as I'm clearly the most technical person on the team. I help them with certain hard skills and they teach me certain soft skills (and certain domain specific hard skills), all the while I feel more closely connected to society since I'm working in a marketing department.

For me, an ambiverted software engineer in Europe, it's definitely been a good move.

What helped me getting the job is that I did 2 bachelor programs at uni, one in psychology, the other in computer science with a business minor. I feel that data analysis is a mix of psychology and computer science while the marketing department is the business part. The path to becoming a data analyst wasn't clear, I simply applied to job postings that I vibed with, I didn't really care about the role. If the job vacancy itself seemed fun, I applied.

I didn't do that enough, in retrospect I should've done it a lot more. That'd be the advice I give myself: just read a lot of job vacancies and just trust your intuition about which one you vibe with (aka feel good about).