My rule of thumb is to never take career or personal finance advice from mass media articles. As someone who has been in various roles in SF tech scene for a f

My rule of thumb is to never take career or personal finance advice from mass media articles. As someone who has been in various roles in SF tech scene for a few years now, I've never thought of "data scientist" as a "sexy" job at all. You are basically a data analyst spending more than half your time cleaning data and waiting for queries to finish running. Same goes for product managers...very few, if any, have authority over the actual "product vision" and spend most of their time writing tickets, project managing, in meetings.