So basically , I’ve had about 3 jobs in my life , as I’ve mostly been in undergrad and grad school, and I’m currently finishing grad school online now as a work as a data analyst .
I started this job in February and took it because it was my dream title , but it is not my dream job. For one, my salary is $42,000, while the average starting salary of a data analyst is about $66K-$77K. Secondly , almost 100% of the work can be done online and was during Covid , but the ceo likes things in paper and likes us to print reports so they can keep them in paper binders in their office. They are some manual entry parts of my work as I do enter documents , but once again, as stated prior, it can be done virtually if they really needed to:
I’m drained from the drive tbh as I have ocular migraines , and I also was hardly trained for more than 5 minutes on my first and second day . And the kicker is , I get 10 days of PTO after my 3 month probation and no sick days , ever , which is funny because I live in the Midwest ( from fl originally) and colds and flus are ubiquitous during winter . They also require us to come in during winter storms , and then decide that we should drive home ( in the middle of the storm) and sometimes let us work from home the next day. Overall, I don’t think it’s worth it to stick this job out for a year, but wanted to see what anyone else in data thinks as I’m relatively new to the field .