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Don't. Learn and specialize.
The issue with chasing what the 'hot' high paying easy to get into job is, it won't be around in 5 years. Data Science is past it's prime already.
Stop chasing trends. Build skills and find a company that invests in it's employees and stay there. They exist. They just aren't 'sexy'. A lot of companies who burn and churn employees are more visible because they are aggressively recruiting people and are easier to get hired at since they don't really care so much about quality vs quantity.
Stop looking for a 'cheat code' to an easy and high paying career. That shit doesn't work unless you have the social status and connections to back it up.
Yep, and be prepared to take a (minor) paycut and/or not work on something "shiny and impressive" in exchange for a better working environment.
I can confirm this is an excellent plan. Anecdotal as it is, I traded a fast-paced job with great people and terrible management for a slower-paced job working on things that do not interest me at all, with excellent peers and fantastic management. The change in working environment (and recognition of WFH as work) has made a huge difference.
My pay cut was 3% initially, but the rate increases of the new job has outpaced that of the old, and it's a few percent in my favour now. I'm pleased and relieved, and I hope its boring self can continue for a few years while I derive satisfaction and joy from interactions at work, and accomplishments and leisure outside of work.
Actually I had little idea it was popular. I just really like that kind of thing.
5 years ago like every other person i met was a data scientist.
now they are all struggling to find jobs.
Fully agree! Best advice I ever got from a high school teacher can be paraphrased as, "Think about what jobs will still be there in 20-30 years and can't be sent offshore. Go into that career path and save your interests and passions for your hobbies."