Does it make sense to change specialty?

Question

IT education

Hello, a little about myself - after 5 years in the office as a marketer, I felt a slowdown in development. The authorities do not promise anything concrete, there is no clear connection between the level of knowledge, experience and financial motivation.

The main specialization is the promotion of products online for the b2b sector. The main place of work is a local company integrator of accounting systems and ACS for horeca.

As part of my work at the company, I got infected with a professional interest in bi solutions and analytics, implemented several dashboards for marketing. Gained initial experience with web technologies - php, MySQL.

When I raised the issue of height, I was unequivocally referred to freelancing. As a result, I got a serious client for bi analytics.

By educational background I am a manager and financier. I am a postgraduate student of a systems analyst. As part of the project work for the institute, I gained initial experience in python (built a window application based on fuzzy logic), and then, combining it with bi tools, I was able to sell it to the customer for the project (implemented data streaming in python to the powerbi dashboard).

At the moment, I see that my main profile - online marketing - is sold poorly for projects, which, coupled with career stuffiness in the company, gives rise to an opinion that the profession is rotten. On the other hand, a positive experience with a customer on bi inspires hope that analytics can be sold expensively and seriously. But I understand that in order to put it on stream, you need to fill in the gaps in fundamental knowledge ... or build your own team ...

Therefore, I'm thinking about a complete retraining. Several firms are already interested in working with data and completed projects, but at the start they are not ready to give me as much as I would like. It is understandable, because the foundation is weak. Plus there are psychological doubts based on the opinion that a professional is a professional everywhere. If I really were as brilliant as recruiters sing to me, I would shoot in the main place.

By professional interest - development of bi solutions for customers, data manipulation through various languages ​​and technologies. But there are doubts. And they are based on the point above (a professional is a professional everywhere).

The essence of the question is whether a radical change in qualifications makes sense, how realistic and painful it is from the standpoint of man-costs and nerves. First of all, they are not interested in customized motivational messages, that this is all real, there would be a desire, but the real experience of people who have gone through this (or not). I will be glad for your answers. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Don't ask questions like this.
You understand that a career is a purely individual thing. It does not always even depend on knowledge and availability of vacancies. A bunch of accidents can help you or vice versa substitute.
Real experience - well, read the biographies of famous people. In every biography, one can find both heavy and complex. And you can remember that the stories are written by the winners - those who did not succeed are unlikely to write anything to you, but most of them are.
As a result, you will recognize a couple of cool stories. AND?
Do you need motivation? Well, it's not small anymore.
Changing qualifications sometimes hurts, sometimes it doesn't. Nowadays, everything depends not even on the project, but on stability, when there is no such thing as “because of the corona, the customer and business left us, tomorrow we are running away”, or “due to the military situation in the west / east, the customer decided dump to India, we hand over cases in a month and scatter."
A professional is not a demigod, and not even a genius.
It is simply someone who has put in the effort to get the job done and to improve his own skills over a long period of time. And this time can be interrupted for various reasons (lack of motivation; tired, sad; health; external factors).
If there is a vacancy that suits you in terms of money, you go and work.
And only oracles can plan their career for 10-20-30 years ahead.

Answer 2

A cardinal change of activity is painful, bloody, and maybe you will die in the process - sometimes this happens, or maybe you won’t sweat - no one knows.

career stuffiness in the company

Maybe change company?

Gained initial experience with web technologies - php, MySQL.

Well, cool, another 2-5 years and you are developed, or maybe not.

Management doesn't promise anything.

And should?

At the moment, I see that my main profile - online marketing - is sold poorly for projects, which, coupled with career stuffiness in the company, gives rise to an opinion that the profession is rotten.

Let me guess, your hobby is extrapolation?

that a professional is a professional everywhere. If I were really as brilliant as recruiters sing to me, I would have shot in the main place

Wow, there are some ideas!
In short - if you like programming - go to programmers, if you like to promote - stay in marketing. Is it really so complicated that you can't figure it out yourself?

Answer 3

php, MySQL

pkhpshnikov are now like a gamna behind a bathhouse, the most stupid thing now is to climb into this stack.

Answer 4

I would like to suggest one psychological trick. Instead of focusing on your own ideas, try to prioritize the needs of society. Simply put - there is currently a need for marketers - you work as a marketer, you have the opportunity to implement a project - you do it! Such a shift in focus will seriously reduce the cost of mental throwing. And in the end it will allow you to find the highest paying niche.

Answer 5

I think that marketing is nai... Well, in the CIS it's true, there is nothing worthwhile in this area. But if you have achieved some success, it is better to move on there, but in another company, if you hit the ceiling in the current one. Going to the web now (puff, python, zhyes) is already bad manners, because "developers" are like shit and dirt.