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You might enjoy Data Governance! It has a lot of the people aspects you're interested in while still being related to your area of knowledge/expertise. My job involves coming up with frameworks that help companies manage and leverage their data better. Half of the equation comes down to people. There's a lot of teaching and coaching involved, thinking differently, working collaboratively, building communities. You don't need strong technical skills usually.
See if you can grab a Continuous Improvement Coordinator. You have the skill set and you will see immediate satisfaction in your work. You will make a difference!
You can be a Business Intelligence Analyst. You'd mostly work with Analysts and data engineers who'll do the technical part and you'll have to understand the insights and prepare materials that will communicate the insights to the decision makers and stakeholders with business context. You'll get opportunities to design dashboards, present findings to the not-tech people and work with them in business strategies utilizing the data insights.
Research the role and talk to BI Analysts/Business Analysts to understand the role in more depth.
All the best!
Just be a more PM/Agile less operations analyst… get scrum master certified and product owner certified
Work on being a ba as a product or project analyst
I made the jump from analyst to product manager and I’ve loved it as I was in the same position as you. I got lucky with my situation and understand it’s hard to break into PM but I’d recommend looking into it.
I want to thank everybody for their inputs, it has been extremely helpful in my process of finding the right role. I’ve got an interview for a customer success role coming up, which seems to be very PM-focused. Hoping that goes well and I appreciate the support!
I am in a very similar mindset, I need some advice as well.
Switch to more of a product and project role. It’s not that complicated and BAs are not supposed to be that technical anyway
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What do you like? :)
You need to be able to coach other people how to do your current job, and care about people.
Product owner? Process owner? Business relationship management?
You could utilize your current skills and apply them to either people focused jobs, or even start a career in Operations. There are entry level positions out there.
For me personally I enjoy operations. Specifically the training and development program piece of it! I feel that Operational Leadership gets the opportunity to solve problems and create solutions to problems or opportunities.
If you have a creative side this might be a good opportunity!
It all depends on the company. I don’t know what the difference would be between your current income and the new role, as I don’t know the specifics
Work two separate jobs part time.
I’m obsessed with analyzing all things included in DCE, but I don’t have the skills to make a living from it… it’s not that I want to do it, I’m just hooked on it. My recommendation is that you go part time. Then you get to enjoy another lifestyle and meet new people. Start working in a restaurant that has plenty of people who are good at their jobs.
I’ve been trying to balance school for network engineering, restaurant work and coaching martial arts. It’s only possible in the right environment. I’m not there yet, but it’s three completely different lifestyles. When I did have it balanced shortly, I couldn’t be happier. Getting back to the balance will not be taken for granted.
Do something in your spare time and once you find something that can replace your income then plan how to switch. We don’t usually have the luxury of gambling with our livelihood.
I have a crazy hybrid role, my title technically is CSM but I do all project manager tasks so I’m being brave and applying for PM roles within why excites me, not in the industry I’m currently in as I just feel really bored and unenthusiastic every day. You’ve got this🤞🏽
I have worked 20+ years in the automotive industry. I understand similarly about not being happy in the field. It's tough. One of the challenges that I have found is going from my knowledge of experience to what I enjoy on the side. However, with that knowledge I've been able to transition slowly to a different field. I'm still trying. Keep trying. It's not easy but you will find what you enjoy.
I was in this situation for over 5 years. Tried multiple roles but always felt something was missing in each. I finally figured that I needed to write down all the skills I am good at and in parallel start networking with people from other lines eg when I was in marketing, I started networking with people in analytics, software development, business analytics, product. You name it. Listed down all the skills required to succeed in each of these departments. Eventually, after all these years I realised that my skill set matched business as well as product. I found my next venture in product management and feel blessed. I’m just 4 months I have started to feel a sense of satisfaction that my direction was tough but correct.
It worked for me, try for yourself and see, it might help you too.
You said you enjoy talking to people, explaining things to nontechnical stakeholders, and teaching others, so I would say you should pivot to a Business Analyst / Business Systems Analyst role. A BSA role entails all of those things that you listed. You have to be the point of communication between nontechnical stakeholders and technical people (engineers, QA, POs, PMs). There’s a lot of teaching and explaining involved in what you do as a BSA.
Same here! I am done with analytics. Time to move on in life
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i’ve always been into fashion and aesthetics. product design has peaked my interest before, i just am not sure what the transition path would look like. any suggestions?
Try change management or Training department