What new skills can I pursue after a break of 5 years and 7 years work experience prior?

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• Mario

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  02 May 20

  Hi,

  The skill area that you already have is one of the very fundamental ones. As an SQL developer in BI/DW, you probably have the technical capabilities to model and store data, transform it and extract all kinds of information from it. These are very fundamental skills for a whole range of upstream technology areas. Any area in which you want to continue your career will require fundamentals as a base. When you already have a very valuable set of fundamentals, why not build further on them instead of leaving them behind and start with something totally new?
  
  

  With that perspective in mind, Cloud is about infrastructure, and Cloud Computing is about enabling a virtual infrastructure and developing applications on it. Data Science and ML can be applied on the cloud or outside of the cloud.

  I would therefore suggest that you first bring your data manipulation skills up to date in terms of current technologies and also the ability to work with Big Data sets. After that, you can look into getting back into the workforce, and, then (either on the job or on the side) start learning about Data Science, and maybe ML after that, if you want to. It is more than likely that along the way you will very naturally be doing some of this on a cloud platform. So, in a way, you can actually be in all these areas in the end, and then you can decide which one you'd like to go much deeper into as a career interest. While you go along that path, the best thing to do is to let your interests guide you, while you also develop an awareness of the markets for these skills and how they are used. Each step of learning will help you understand each of those skill areas well enough to be able to make the decision about how you'd like to progress further.

  Hope this perspective helps. There are no overrated fields, in my opinion. There are only fields that you may find to be of career interest or those that you may not find interesting. You'll be able to decide once you know get to know more about them.

  • Anonymous

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    03 May 20

    Thank you so much Mario for a detailed response. This is really helpful in deciding on what steps should I take next. Also, it would be extremely helpful if you can suggest beginner courses I can start with pertaining to Cloud computing. I am considering picking MS azure cloud. Thanks again for your time.
    
    

    • Mario

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      03 May 20

      There are a really large number of courses available for a beginner to start off on cloud computing on Azure, and I can't say that I am familiar with either the course content or course quality of them all, so I'd hesitate to suggest any one of them specifically. I would suggest you put together a list of as many as you can find online, and then go through the content listing, and ratings and comments of actual course participants. It is important that you understand the scope of these courses before you sign up. Some of them have been available for quite a while and have thousands of people who've taken them and have given them uniformly high ratings.
      
      

• Soumya

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  11 June 20

  As you are from technical background my suggestion is like you can opt-out for something into cybersecurity. I would suggest Ethical hacking or CISSP certification. You can become IT security professional with simply doing a certification in CISSP or Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Having a CISSP certification mentioned in your profile proves you have skills that might give a good career restart. Checkout this Intellipaat cybersecurity CISSP training course to achieve your goal.

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