Fortune 500 companies are always hiring data analysts, business analysts, ETL (extract-transform-load) developers, etc. Anyone who knows their way around SQL an

Fortune 500 companies are always hiring data analysts, business analysts, ETL (extract-transform-load) developers, etc. Anyone who knows their way around SQL and Excel will be able to get one of these jobs. If you don't have those skills, get them. Consider an associate degree at a community college or something, because those F500 companies don't give a crap about GitHub portfolios nearly as much as they do about a piece of paper that says you can show up on time enough to get the piece of paper. These companies also use contracting and consulting firms to staff three- and six- month projects, often for data migration, decommissioning legacy systems, and other data-heavy tasks. Ask around in the tech community in your area about which firms treat people fairly, help professional development, etc. and make contact with some of them. Many sponsor "boot camps" or other training activities. After you have that actual job under your belt (and the 40-hours-a-week of real-life experience with the systems) it will be much easier to pivot into something that adds up to more than just monkeying around with data loads and report generation.