I've been working in the data space for 8 years and find it incredibly fulfilling. Open source community is great (I've built and contributed to a lot of proje

I've been working in the data space for 8 years and find it incredibly fulfilling. Open source community is great (I've built and contributed to a lot of projects), LinkedIn has tons of great data content, meetups are fun. The work is interesting and the problems are important. It's funny cause the parts the author is mentioning are easy are the hard parts for me. The author says "The pressure is non-existent"... That hasn't been the case for me. Deadlines are tight, jobs fail, running jobs overnight, checking if they're still running before going to bed - it's not great for a restful sleep. I've always given talked, created new open source libraries, and blogged whenever my day job gets a little boring. It's such a fast growing, exciting field. I feel like it's hard to keep up, let alone get bored!