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Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Maybe you all can help me put a label on the job I've done/job I am looking for, because I seem to be struggling in that department right now in my job search.

My last couple of roles were doing "data services" - updating, suppressing/deleting records, ETL for new client data intake from legacy systems, creating and processing duplicate reports, and creating custom reports to client spec. The actual position name I held, "Data Services Specialist" ends up showing me Data Engineer jobs which to me make sense - not being responsible for the design, maintenance, or troubleshooting of the database architecture itself, I always sort of just assumed I fell into the "engineer" bucket rather than the "administrator" bucket making me a Data Engineer since the scope of my work was restricted to the data itself. (I'm also competent enough with PHP/HTML to throw together a basic web interface that can query/write to a database but I haven't seen a ton of overlap in job postings there, most full stack stuff wants experience with Ruby etc)

From what I've been able to gather from job postings, what I've done in the past is more of a database administrator role and if that's the case there's some upskilling I need to do on the creation/maintenance/policy admin side (or a lot of resume and interview bluffing to cover that blind spot while I try and actually catch up) but what with my lovely underemployed after getting laid off situation if I'm going to spend money for a course I need to make sure it aligns with my expectations of a job role.

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