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Hi good folks of r/datascience . Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I am kind of at an impasse in my career right now. I work as a ML engineer looking to leave my current employer soon. I realized in the past year or so, that I actually dislike the modeling/stats part of it all and enjoy engineering. I have degrees in math and stats, and gotten good grades, so it's not like I am bad at it. And I actually liked these in school. But in my career, I am not really enjoying that aspect anymore, and want to just focus on engineering and building stuff. I no longer care about reading up on statistical models and ML papers. I get that Attention is all I need, but I no longer care to pay attention to Attention, if you get my drift.

So I am looking to leave data science and ML and pivot towards an adjacent engineering role, something like data engineering, MLOps, analytics engineering, platform engineering and the like. At the same time, I feel like AI/ML is the future and will explode in demand very soon, if it isn't already there. Perhaps it's fomo or feeling that my education in math/stats have gone to waste, but there is a part of me that feels like I am downgrading or moving down the career ladder by doing this. I also see most people trying to move \*towards\* ML so I feel like I am doing something wrong by making such a move.

I am wondering if anybody has faced something similar before and pivoted completely towards engineering rather than the ML model development and stats side (e.g. the "sexy" parts of data science). If you did, I would like to hear your story. What made you transition to an engineering focus? And do you regret it? Do you think you will eventually go back to ML/AI side or stay in engineering?

This was a bit longer than I expected, but thanks for reading!

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text Hi good folks of r/datascience . Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I am kind of at an impasse in my career right now. I work as a ML engineer looking to leave my current employer soon. I realized in the past year or so, that I actually dislike the modeling/stats part of it all and enjoy engineering. I have degrees in math and stats, and gotten good grades, so it's not like I am bad at it. And I actually liked these in school. But in my career, I am not really enjoying that aspect…
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