I have a bachelor's degree in history and live in northern Virginia, there's practically no jobs here within my field, and I don't want to work in manual labor, fast food, or any job that could injury or maim me.I have skills in Excel, I was thinking of taking a Coursera course on SQL and data analytics.Are you a data analyst? What are your thoughts on it?
>>108985657I think data analyst or similar are just fine and I'm sure there are plenty of jobs for it, especially also considering some big data / ai stuff that has been very popular. However not to discourage you, but it might be pretty hard to find such a job if you don't have a cs or math background. I don't think you can impress anyone with some online courses and it might be a bit narrow anyways, if you don't have some general understanding of cs. Not that I would think it would be impossible to learn any of this on the side, but I think you might be heavily underestimating what would be expected of you. So if you are serious about this, I would more think of a multi year degree from scratch coming from history. And you would probably struggle because you are lacking the math backrounds for even that.
>>108985657You'll probably be able to land A job, not sure if it will be super high paying with just SQL skills. Eventually you will want to pick up programming to take things to the next level. With just transactional SQL, you will inevitably run into things that need to be processed, or simulated. Programming helps with this and also lets you automate a lot of busywork, ETL, report formatting/generation, etc. And with no programming skills, you will also be at the mercy of how slow/dumb your company's dev department is when it comes to getting tooling and updates.
