Most data work seems fundamentally worthless
I switched out of data engineering, and became a software engineer instead. I work on building the data infrastrue tools that I used to use. Maybe this only applies to me, but building the tools that I used to use is somehow incredibly satisfiying. I think it's because as someone who used to use the tools, I know what I want, and then I build it, completing the "cycle of needs".So my advice to some of the data scientist/engineers out there is to go a little deeper into the tooling and try to understand how they were built.