📚 My degree in sociology is surprisingly the most valuable experience in my technical career-- more so than my coding skills and STEM degree. Let me share why below! . . . 🎤 Communication and influence becomes one of the most important skills once you reach the senior level of a technical career. Whether you go from senior to leadership or technical lead, you are going to find yourself coding a lot less. 📝 Your time in your favorite IDE is replaced with making key decisions that require substantial writing, talking with key stakeholders, and synthesizing information. Your ability to clearly communicate value around ambiguous problems is paramount. 🌎 This is where sociology comes in. It's unique in that you are trying to understand human behavior at scale, thus requiring you to put structure around extremely ambiguous and subjective topics. 🧠 Through sociology I learned how to deal with ambiguity and more importantly learned how to communicate to others about ambiguity. 👉🏽 Fast forward into my technical career and I'm once again dealing with ambiguity in the form of data. Though my technical skills are a requirement to do this work, my ability to communicate about the data, similar to sociology, is what's allowing me to excel and drive impact. #sociology #data #datascience #dataengineering #dataops #ml #machinelearning #ai #analytics #python #r #sql ----- 🔔 Want more content like this in your LinkedIn feed? Then don't forget to click "Follow" on my profile!