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title: "Follow Your Passion"
description: "none"
date: 2019-01-01
published: false
tags:
  - soft
  - catalytic
template: blog-post
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## Follow Your Passion

_my journey into data science_

In January 2018 I started work as a full time data scientist turning my passion into a career.  It is something that I didn't see myself doing 5 years ago, but is something that I love to do.  It combines my love of data, visualization, story telling, software development, and writing code.  Most of all it allows me to work in a space that promotes learning and creativity.  As a mechanical engineer for a company that has been building equipment for nearly a century the mechanical engineering is very well established I felt that there was not a lot of room for creativity.


## Find Your Role

When I first started as a full time  mechanical engineer