A Skill I Wished I had

Three years ago, my sister suggested I learn technological skills like coding because it's a hot skill that is taking a great shape in the technology world. She stood as my mentor then as I got confused trying to know where to begin. I had no idea about this stuff because I didn't study in this line unlike her who studied engineering course in school. She just wanted to try her best for me to fit into the technology space and survive. She would always send me different courses to start with as a beginner and I appreciated that.

I zoomed into action with my system and I was determined to do something on that, especially not failing her effort on me. I was updating her too when I first started learning HTML from scratch. I watched lots of videos on YouTube and it was becoming interesting all along. It got to a point, my small brain couldn't continue. I was moving from the simple/basics to complex and my eyes were beginning to see different things when I was bombarded with codes everywhere.

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When I am being given assignments to try on my own, it was stressful trying to go through the examples that I have jotted down and wanting to learn those things in my head so that I wouldn't rely on checking those examples every minute but when I did that for 3 months, I gave up. I had headaches and experienced hot temperature. That was when I knew coding, HTML, java etc were not my thing. When I told my sister, she laughed at me.

I left that one and decided to learn data analysis. Seriously, that skill was something that was on my mind for a long time. It was different from the first one because I had no thought about it but for data analysis, I would sleep and wake up with the thought but was always postponing learning the skill. I don't need to go to classes to learn this as I can do that with my phone and laptop and in the comfort of my zone but I just couldn't lay my hands on why I never started.

My younger sister learnt the skill and is now a data analyst, this was after I had it in mind to start too but I guess there was no one to push me into learning and taking the challenge up, no motivation. I would see where she would post pictures of how she and her friends were always encouraging and motivating themselves and they learnt it within a few months. See the power of an accountability partner, but I didn't have.

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I decided to forget about it. Do you know why?

Recently, I have been on Twitter for job hunting and what I have been seeing is companies needing data analysts with experience and with higher pay monthly. Once I see any job vacancy of a company that needs a data analyst, I wish I had learnt the skill, perhaps I would have gotten myself a job remotely where I would be earning hugely every month.

Data analysis is one of the biggest skills in this technology era and most companies are looking for those who have the experience and understand fully the work because in this world we are now, everything has become digital and everyone needs something to augment their offline job.

Although it's something I wish I had learnt, I still don't think it's something I would be able to do because the skill involves the knowledge of learning how to code and this is something I ran away from a long time ago and didn't think I would put my mind into learning it again. That alone discouraged me and made me shift to what my ability could carry especially skills that do not need coding in them. This was why I forgot about it completely.

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