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1. study for 6 months to get google cloud professional data engineer cert or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

2. Fend off $250k+ offers

Yep. Pigs also need just a few steps to fly. It’s a Herculean task trying to teach an academic to code well if they weren’t already coding well. This is first hand knowledge going through the insight data science program for phds and seeing most colleagues struggle and never truly embrace software development.

You still can get a 250k offer in a good job market but not sure about now.

What did you see your colleagues struggle most with?

Coding is not a skill anyone can just pick up, from what I’ve seen. Going through academia doesn’t skew that probability either. Thus most academics struggle getting to understand coding the same way normal people do.

> It’s a Herculean task trying to teach an academic to code well if they weren’t already coding well.

Code. Test. Optimise.

Thats why fuzzers are important for testing, they brute force stupidity so the users dont have to.

Is the AWS Certified Cloud Tech job market really that hot? I could probably get that cert but I figured no one would care.

Could anyone (technically oriented) do this for real or are there unspoken education/economic prerequisites?

Where can one "study" to get these certs?

Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure have courses online to prepare for certifications. See their corresponding websites.

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