My chosen career is further away from tech than I'd like - I'm in my final year of medical school. I love tinkering with computers for fun.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to include programming alongside clinical practice in some way. I've picked up some very basic Python by making hobby projects over the last few years, and my current aims are to improve those Python skills and brush up on statistics in order to learn, er, statistical learning for research. I'm slowly making my way through MIT's 6.0001 and OpenIntro statistics.
I really hadn't expected this project to receive this many responses! My impression of HN has been that it's full of highly skilled, super talented devs and I was a bit intimidated by the idea of posting about my own clunky project. But thankfully HN is a lot more welcoming to beginners than I'd thought :)