Become free of Confusion in Tech

D Vehu Alonge
3 min readFeb 14, 2024

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Discover the best career in tech that fits your personality.

1.

If you love Mathematics or Statistics

If you have accounting knowledge

If you can pay attention to details and love fluidity

If you have a strong domain knowledge on specific industries like; Health sector, Educational Sector, Technology and innovation…..

If you have patience. Data Science is tricky and can be frustrating

If you have critical thinking and problem solving ability

CHOOSE DATA SCIENCE

Stuff you should know:

Software:

SPSS, Excel, Tableau, Power BI

Knowledge:

Presentation, Graphs, Charts, Tables, Calculations, Statistical Formulae.

Careers you can easily switch from:

Accounting, Engineering, Teaching (Science), B./P. Analyst

2.

If you love nature

If you love the idea of photography, or the beauty and aesthetics of things

If you love designs (Interior, exterior, architectural, application etc)

If you love pattern recognition using colors, text and images

If you have an experience in graphics design

If you have an eye for details

CHOOSE UI/UX DESIGN

Stuff you should know:

Software:

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch

Knowledge:

Details, Hierarchy, Positioning, Color, Fonts, Elements, Text-manipulation

Careers you can easily switch from:

Graphics design, Photography, Artist, Painter, Tech savy jobs

3.

If you have hardcore dedication, focus and a long-term commitment

If you have an unswerving eye for spotting anomalies

If you can comprehend and recognize mathematical and algorithmic patterns

If you love logic, data structures and algorithms

If you {like problems always} are patient-Software Engineering is filled with challenges. Critical thinking and problem solving is a necessity

CHOOSE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Stuff you should know:

Visual Studio, Atom, intelliJ, Geany

Knowledge: Html, css, javascript, python, C#, java, sql, nosql

Careers you can easily switch from:

Teaching (Science), Scientist (Pharm, Dr), Lawyer,

Computer Operator, Engr (Mch, Ae, Cv), Tech Savy

4.

If you want to enter into core tech, but dont want to code

If you can identify possible threats in systems

If you have an eye for spotting potential harm. eg missing “s’’ in ”http”

If you have criminal instinct and love fishing out criminals in real-time

If you are fluid and can adapt quickly to new things

If you love protocols, organising system and creating protective tools to things you did not create, hence assuring its safety

CHOOSE CYBER SECURITY

Stuff you should know:

WAF, DLP, MFA, EPP, IDS

Knowledge:

Comand line, OS (mac, unix, windows, linux), pishing,

Internet, protocol/system layering , fluid authorizations

Careers you can easily switch from:

Security Intel, Criminologist, Tech Savy roles etc…

#softwareengineer #Cybersecurity #datascience #uiuxdesign

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