I'm a 'data analyst' who in practice is actually just a software engineer. Was I bamboozled, or did I misunderstand the role

my first job was as a consultant, doing a mix of implementation and data analytics.

then i switched to a new job with the data analyst title, but I'm building production R scripts almost exclusively now; not a huge fan of wrangling with my team's complex/sparsely commented codebase and designing 'systems' (our scripts have to integrate with a variety of outside data sources).

I miss doing 'investigations', eg how do we better optimize this product, make more revenue, etc. now …

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