Hello everyone.
I currently work at a company in the data services department. Every day I find myself disliking my job and thus my life more and more. There are many reasons why, but here are a few:
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Company has an anti-innovation culture. They prefer to do everything manually because the managers have convinced themselves that having humans do tedious repetitive tasks will lead to fewer mistakes than having an automated program do it (which of course is false but also ignores other important variables like opportunity cost, efficiency, employee satisfaction, turnover rate, etc).
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The company is disorganized, it's one of those companies where it lacks a central database and instead we live in the world of 10 billion excel spreadsheets scattered all over the place. This of course leads to the departments not communicating with each other effectively which then leads to other problems. Very often a piece of information you need is sitting on the personal drive of someone's computer instead of being stored in a database, so then you have to waste your time playing Where's Waldo to get this information. Not to mention there are many tasks that spend hours to do on Excel that could be done instantaneously with a database and a basic knowledge of SQL queries.
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My job is boring as hell where all I do are the same tasks every day because my boss doesn't want to bother training anybody. When I have free time I spend it by writing scripts in VBA that automate tasks and I am also creating a database for my department so we can be better organized (in addition the database will automate a lot of things currently done manually, and also you can use the database to gather business intelligence and statistics to help gain insight). The only reason I have been able to do this stuff is by doing it without the knowledge of the managers. The place is disorganized so there are a lot of things the managers don't even keep track of, this is where I step in to help my coworkers by automating things for them. Won't be surprised if/when they find out they'll get mad at me even though everything I've automated works perfectly fine and saves my coworkers hours of work per week.
I used to see all the problems at my company as an opportunity for me to fix them and make the place more efficient. However reality is slowly dawning on me and I'm noticing that my enthusiasm to fix problems is dwindling because of all the political nonsense and obstacles that are put in place to prevent me from improving things.
The job is boring, I need something more challenging. I'd also like to work at a company where being enthusiastic and wanting to solve problems is encouraged and rewarded. I love teaching myself how to do new things, for example I taught myself relational database design (primary key, foreign key, 1st/2nd/3rd normal forms, etc) and also taught myself how to program in VBA. I'd think a company would be appreciative if an employee is willing to teach themselves these things outside of work without pay because they are that enthusiastic to help the company, but at the place I work at they'd prefer pigeon holing you to do the same repetitive tasks over and over again.
So I'd like it if I could get a new job, problem is I'm not sure exactly what I should be looking for with my skills because I'd prefer getting a new job relatively soon (I.E. in less than 6 months). Here is a brief list of my education and skills
Education: BS in Mathematics
Skills: High fluency with Excel. VBA programming knowledge in Excel, Outlook, and Access. SQL experience as well. Experience designing and building relational databases up to BCNF (Boyce Codd Normal Form I.E. 3.5 Normal Form).
Also outside of work I've done some programming with R, Python, and Java. I have a basic understanding of Object Oriented Programming. I also have some experience with data analysis via machine learning. I have a basic understanding of the data science process (also took a few courses in probability and statistics in college), but I highly doubt I'm experienced enough to get a job that will regularly require the use of machine learning. Don't get me wrong, I'd love a job in Data Science/Machine Learning but I don't believe that is something you can achieve in the time-window I'd like to get a new job in. I'm trying to be realistic here with the short time window I'd prefer leaving in.
Maybe I should be looking for some kind of analyst position? Really I'm open minded to many recommendations, assuming the recommendation is something that I can either apply for now or is something I could apply for in a couple months if I taught myself a few other things (which is no problem, I am the kind of person who loves learning and growing).
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