Creativity At Work

When people ask what I do for a living, I tell them I’m a data analyst. Eventually, I elaborate that I spend my days sitting in meetings, writing code, building reports, and contemplating my dorkiness.

Most people assume the work I do is purely technical.

But that’s far from the truth. A lot of the work I do is highly creative. Not creative in the sense that I’m building something pretty and colorful. Although sometimes my reports have an aesthetic appeal to them. Instead, being a data analyst is creative because I'm often forced to find unique and out-of-the-box ways to solve problems.

That creative problem-solving makes the job fun.