Does it make sense to retrain from an economist to a business analyst?

Question

Career in IT

Good day to all!
I recently graduated from a university (economics HSE), I have been working in a large company as an economist for about a year. In the process of work, he participated in the implementation of a product based on 1C. I realized that participation in the process of product implementation (formation, discussion, writing technical specifications, subsequent testing of improvements) interests me much more than building financial models, presentations, etc.
In this regard, I had a question: does it make sense to try to move to the position of a business analyst in a company specializing in the implementation of IT solutions, for example, 1C?
In order to understand this, I outlined the following range of questions:
1. Career prospects: is it realistic to become a project manager in the future?
2. Which companies/products/directions should you pay attention to when looking for a job?
3. What skills need to be developed?
From programming I know only VBA.
Please help me answer the above questions, as well as tell me about other pros / cons of this decision / about other possible career tracks. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The skills and knowledge of economists did not converge on 1C.
To become a project manager, you must be involved in project management. Learn to organize people to solve some problems. To do this, you yourself need to learn how to solve problems better than others, so that they pay attention to you and attract you to more complex and responsible work, give you a resource in the form of people and rights. It doesn't matter what plan the problems will be solved. Do what you enjoy. Having an economic education, you can help people build businesses, closing the organizational and financial part.
Companies that really make money.
There are many useful skills. The value is not in a specific skill, but in how well you have pumped it. For example, the skill of baking pies can be a vulgar and absolutely useless skill until it is developed. But if you pumped it so much that everyone wants only your pies, it is priceless.
Usually, in all professions, the following is valued:
1. Communication - the ability to find a common language with different people, the ability to listen, the ability to convey thoughts correctly, to convince.
2. Proactivity - and so it is clear.
3. Honesty - honest people are not loved, but appreciated. In big business, honesty in the circle of top management and owners is indispensable. Honesty can and should be trained.
4. Responsibility and determination - everything that you have been entrusted with will be done, and it cannot be otherwise. Develop the skill of getting things done and solving problems that others have given up on.
The rest of the skills lie in your professional area. Look at what is hard for others, and try to become the best at it, learn to solve problems that others cannot solve.