17 Months Unemployed and Still Trying ,Looking for a Data Analyst Opportunity or Referral

Hi everyone,

I'm writing this with a lot of hope because, honestly, I don't know what else to do at this point.

I've been job hunting for **17 months**, and my financial situation has become really bad. I'm the elder daughter in my family, and supporting my family is a responsibility that's extremely important to me. I genuinely need to find a job, and the longer this goes on, the harder things are becoming for us.

I previously worked for a year at a company that eventually shut down. We weren't paid our salaries for the last 4–5 months, and ever since then, I've been trying to find another job. I've applied to countless openings, reached out to recruiters and professionals, and actively messaged **250+ people on LinkedIn** looking for guidance, opportunities, or referrals.

Unfortunately, I've received very little help so far. Most of the time, it's rejection emails, and in many cases, I don't hear back from companies at all. I've kept trying, improving my skills, and building projects to demonstrate my abilities, but despite all these efforts, I'm still unemployed.

This situation has taken a serious toll on me mentally and emotionally. My financial circumstances are extremely difficult, and I need to start earning so I can support my family. As the elder daughter, this isn't just about finding a job for myself; it's also about being able to contribute to my family's needs.

Honestly, **this post feels like one of my last hopes of finding an opportunity.** I'm not asking anyone to hand me a job without evaluating my skills. I'm just asking for a chance to be considered and prove that I can do the work.

# Projects I've worked on

* **Retail Sales Analytics Dashboard:** Built an end-to-end analytics project using SQL, PostgreSQL, and Power BI, covering 150K transactions, data cleaning and quality checks, a seven-table star schema, DAX measures, and a five-page interactive dashboard.

* **Customer Churn Analysis:** Worked on SQL-based churn analysis and a PostgreSQL data warehouse pipeline to explore churn patterns, customer behaviour, data quality, and revenue at risk.

* **Freddie Mac Mortgage Data Pipeline (in progress):** Currently building a Python, Pandas, and SQL-based pipeline focused on mortgage data profiling, validation, ETL, and data warehousing.

# Skills

SQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Pandas, Power BI, DAX, Power Query, Excel, data cleaning, data validation, ETL, and data modelling.

I'm looking for **Data Analyst, BI Analyst, SQL Developer / Junior SQL Developer or Junior Data Analyst** opportunities. I'm open to suitable opportunities and willing to learn, work hard, and prove myself.

If anyone knows of an opening, can refer me, or can connect me with a recruiter or hiring manager, please **reach out/DM me**. I'd be incredibly grateful for any genuine lead or referral. Even one conversation with the right person could make a real difference to my situation.

I've been trying for so long, and I'm genuinely struggling. I don't want to give up, but right now, I really need some help getting my career back on track.

Thank you for reading this and for any help you can offer.

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 5 days ago
▲ 19 r/dataanalysiscareers+1 crossposts

17 Months Unemployed and Still Trying ,Looking for a Data Analyst Opportunity or Referral

Hi everyone,

I'm writing this with a lot of hope because, honestly, I don't know what else to do at this point.

I've been job hunting for 17 months, and my financial situation has become really bad. I'm the elder daughter in my family, and supporting my family is a responsibility that's extremely important to me. I genuinely need to find a job, and the longer this goes on, the harder things are becoming for us.

I previously worked for a year at a company that eventually shut down. We weren't paid our salaries for the last 4–5 months, and ever since then, I've been trying to find another job. I've applied to countless openings, reached out to recruiters and professionals, and actively messaged 250+ people on LinkedIn looking for guidance, opportunities, or referrals.

Unfortunately, I've received very little help so far. Most of the time, it's rejection emails, and in many cases, I don't hear back from companies at all. I've kept trying, improving my skills, and building projects to demonstrate my abilities, but despite all these efforts, I'm still unemployed.

This situation has taken a serious toll on me mentally and emotionally. My financial circumstances are extremely difficult, and I need to start earning so I can support my family. As the elder daughter, this isn't just about finding a job for myself; it's also about being able to contribute to my family's needs.

Honestly, this post feels like one of my last hopes of finding an opportunity. I'm not asking anyone to hand me a job without evaluating my skills. I'm just asking for a chance to be considered and prove that I can do the work.

Projects I've worked on

  • Retail Sales Analytics Dashboard: Built an end-to-end analytics project using SQL, PostgreSQL, and Power BI, covering 150K transactions, data cleaning and quality checks, a seven-table star schema, DAX measures, and a five-page interactive dashboard.
  • Customer Churn Analysis: Worked on SQL-based churn analysis and a PostgreSQL data warehouse pipeline to explore churn patterns, customer behaviour, data quality, and revenue at risk.
  • Freddie Mac Mortgage Data Pipeline (in progress): Currently building a Python, Pandas, and SQL-based pipeline focused on mortgage data profiling, validation, ETL, and data warehousing.

Skills

SQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Pandas, Power BI, DAX, Power Query, Excel, data cleaning, data validation, ETL, and data modelling.

I'm looking for Data Analyst, BI Analyst, SQL Developer / Junior SQL Developer or Junior Data Analyst opportunities. I'm open to suitable opportunities and willing to learn, work hard, and prove myself.

If anyone knows of an opening, can refer me, or can connect me with a recruiter or hiring manager, please reach out/DM me. I'd be incredibly grateful for any genuine lead or referral. Even one conversation with the right person could make a real difference to my situation.

I've been trying for so long, and I'm genuinely struggling. I don't want to give up, but right now, I really need some help getting my career back on track.

Thank you for reading this and for any help you can offer.

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 5 days ago

I wanna read comics of MoonKnight, but dk where to start?

If anybody could point me to the right direction/give me list of them, which to start from etc.

Thankyou.

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 24 days ago

Rate my Resume, and tell me what more can i do?

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Data Analyst with a CS engineering background, focused on SQL and Power BI for retail and sales analytics. Experience spans the full analytics pipeline — PostgreSQL schema design, star schema data modelling, SQL-based data cleaning, DAX measures, and interactive multi-page dashboard reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SQL:  PostgreSQL, MySQL - CTEs, window functions, subqueries, aggregate functions

Power BI:  DAX (measures, calculated columns), data modeling, Power Query, drill-through & interactive reporting

Excel:  Pivot Tables, Power Query, Power Pivot

Python:  Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib - data cleaning & exploratory analysis

Tools:  Git/GitHub, VS Code, Jupyter

AI Tools: AI-assisted SQL/DAX development (Claude, ChatGPT) with manual validation and correction; prompt engineering for data exploration and query drafting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Outreach Head Jun 2024 – Apr 2025

McGeeks Mechatronics Government e-Marketplace (GeM) · Remote

▸   Extracted and cleaned procurement data from the GeM portal using Python, cross-referencing it against internal inventory records to identify fulfilment gaps and support order accuracy

▸   Coordinated with vendors on delivery documentation to ensure timely, accurate order completion

PROJECTS

Pizza Sales Dashboard· SQL-Power BI

▸   Designed a normalized PostgreSQL schema and wrote SQL queries to calculate 5 core business KPIs (Revenue, AOV, Total Orders, etc.) across 48,621 rows of order data, including correlated subqueries for category/size share-of-total sales.

▸   Built a 3-page interactive Power BI dashboard with slicers, a conditional-formatted Day × Hour heatmap to surface timing trends, and plain-language insight call-out panels, fully documented and version-controlled on GitHub.

Retail Sales Analytics Dashboard · SQL-Power BI

▸   Designed a 7-table star schema (150K fact rows across 6 dimensions) on an AI-generated synthetic retail dataset, then built a PostgreSQL database with 8 documented data cleaning tasks, including outlier detection using per-category business logic thresholds

▸   Built a 5-page interactive Power BI dashboard with 20+ DAX measures (time intelligence, RANKX, CALCULATE) and dynamic executive-summary measures (ADDCOLUMNS, TOPN, MAXX) that surfaced insights such as Electronics' ~55% revenue concentration risk, UPI's ~26% share of digital payments, and weekend sales contributing 42% of revenue despite being 2 of 7 days

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 2 months ago

Feedback on my Resume

What should i do to improve to get shortlisted for interviews/hired?
Yes my project is uploaded to github
Any kind of feedback is appreciated
Looking for jobs in India

u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 3 months ago
▲ 5 r/dataanalysiscareers+1 crossposts

Rate my Resume

What should i do to improve to get shortlisted for interviews/hired?
Yes my project is uploaded to github
Any kind of feedback is appreciated
Looking for jobs in India

u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 3 months ago

S10 Mer and Cristina fight

I'm on Mer's side on this one , Cristina had no right to tell her that she slowed down because she had a kid. The heart and liver plant surgery, Cristina was right to ask for Bailey, Mer wasn't ready for it, but everything that followed after that, was cruel on Cristinas part. I feel that somewhere she resentment Meredith for being able to choose to have kids and being able to be a surgeon, cause it did not work that way for her. I think that Cristina resented her somewhere cause ,if she would have wanted kids , she could have had Owen , and her and owen would also be a great love story , like MerDer, but that is the point right? Cristina loves surgery more than anything, and she didn't want all of that. I believe that a part of the whole 'you slowed down Mer" comes from this thing for her. Alsoo comparing Meredith to Bailey and Callie, they only had one kid to manage , having two is twice as hard, Meredith had to navigate a lot about the whole pregnancy thing for her, from thinking to never being able to have kids biologically, adoption of zola ,and then having her son too. Really mad at Cristina for saying that to her.

And omg shane was a insufferable little bitch, he was just pissed of that Derek has taken Brooks under his wing and had something to prove, he was a jealous little asshole fr. Also very pushy , and was a catalyst for a the fight to be prolonged.

The printer did not belong to the hospital, it was wrong for Cristina and Shane to just takeover and start printing like that. Meredith got the printer for the grant she applied and got.

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 4 months ago

In real world , after the crash , everyone would just go their ways right?

Mer would be in boston , Cristina in Minnesota, Alex at hopkins , etc,

They wouldn't stick around at a place where it caused them so much pain

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 4 months ago

So Mark was the one that put Japril ideas into Jackson and April

Before the boards ,when Jackson is all pent up , Mark goes to April and says they could be more than study buddies, and then following events happen

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 4 months ago

Why didn't Burke ask George to be his best man? Weren't they close?

The episode before their wedding his best man ,drops out , and then Richard, Derek,and Burke are standing, waiting for a ambulance, and he asks Derek, like even Derek is shocked when he asks him. George and Burke were close , what happened to them in S3, was it because of the whole situation??

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 5 months ago

Callie and George get married, and omg Izzie has to be insufferable about it. I never understood why she didn't like callie, like yeah he's your bestfriend and everything but good lord, the way she tries to control him, treats him like a baby. Woman he's a grown ass man , he doesn't need babying around, especially by you. She had major boundary issues I'm on my re-watch tho, she's just... Ughh

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u/Acceptable-Note-2030 — 6 months ago