So What Do You Do?

This week we talk to Ethan, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy teaching about the philosophy of language in Sweden!

We learn about what drew Ethan to this line of work, and his fascinating path to getting there.

Check out some of Ethan's work below:

Warning: The article includes the n-word in a quote from Langston Hughes’ autobiography

https://archive.philosophersmag.com/extinct-languages/

As always, we may say some bad words so marking it as explicit so no one can yell at us

This week, Joyce and Jen talk to their old co-worker and friend Greg Cuellar, who works as a Product Designer.

We get into it this week, so buckle up!

Interested in product design? Check out these resources provided by our amazing guest, Greg:

Tools:

Figma: https://www.figma.com

Sketch: https://www.sketch.com/

Adobe XD: https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/xd.html

Learning:

https://www.nngroup.com/

https://www.interaction-design.org/

https://uxdesign.cc/

https://dribbble.com/

https://uxplanet.org/

As always, marking the episode to have explicit content only because it is likely someone swears at some point.

To celebrate our triumphant return to posting again, we had to celebrate by sharing our interview with our friend Jay, who with his biz partner Chen-Chen Huo, opened up a bar in San Francisco proper!

We learn about the journey of two college buddies taking on the stereotypical (his words, not ours!) pipe dream of opening up a bar, during a pandemic no less!

Be sure to check out Trade Routes on social, and in person if you're in San Fran:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/traderoutesbar/

Website: https://traderoutesbar.com/

Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/trade-routes-san-francisco?osq=trade+routes+bar

Address: 1750 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Recently featured: https://sf.eater.com/maps/boozy-frozen-alcoholic-cocktails-slushy-milkshakes-map

As always, episode marked as explicit because we may say some bad words but likely it's not that bad

This week, Joyce and Jen sit down with Serena, who is currently a Commercial Pilot but got her start in the industry as a Flight Attendant.

We learn about her path to becoming a pilot, and her experience working at a Flight Attendant.

Below are resources to find out more on becoming a Flight Attendant, or Commercial Pilot provided by Serena:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/319802768217902/?ref=share

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1082034292143195/?ref=share

https://www.facebook.com/GIFTAcademy/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fastpilots.org/?ref=share

http://www.klaviation.com/2015/06/22/an-overview-of-airways/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/flightattendantcareerconnection/?ref=share

This week ... Joyce and Jen interview Jana, a Data Scientist. Is it data, or is it science. Dang girl, it's both! We find out what a day looks like for Jana, what type of problems they solve in the workplace, and everything in between!

Resources to learn more about Data Science in the show notes. You can also check out a timestamp of the interview below. Thanks for listening, and be sure to follow and subscribe!

Resources from Jana

• Simply Statistics Data Science Blog

• Andrew Ng's Free Online Machine Learning Course

• Code Academy's Python 3 Course

• Dataquest's Data Science Courses

• O'Reilly's Data Newsletter

• O'Reilly's "Python for Data Analysis" Book

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Timestamps!

6:50 Intro to Jana Dodson

7:15 Career Title: Data Scientist

09:01 What does a data scientist do?

10:33 Difference between analytics vs machine learning vs engineer

13:45 How is data measured, organized, and determined whether it is valuable

16:00 Are data scientists a combination of analytics, machine learning, and engineer

17:10 What made you want to be a data scientist 18:20 What Jenna studied in undergrad

20:25 How much computer science background do you need

22:02 How to become a data scientist - classes, resources, etc

24:17 Day in a life

26:30 Behavioral models, customer behavior, vs operational data

28:50 How is a data scientist similar to an: Economist? Business analyst?

31:43 What area in physics did you specialize in, plan to pursue?

33:45 What comprises the core of your job?

36:30 How do you approach your data for analysis? How often is your data informed by a pre-formed hypothesis?

39:00 Prediction of the data scientist label in the future

41:15 Soft skills recommended for data scientists

42:40 What do you gravitate towards more - analytics, machine learning, engineer

44:38 What type of data do you work with; the question, how to find a solution, etc

47:03 Startups vs veteran company expectations 48:30 Obstacles and how the job is evolving

50:52 QF: What about your job gives you energy vs drains you energy

51:43 QF: What kind of person would thrive in a job like this

52:48 QF: How does one determine the subrole they should pursue

This week, Joyce and Jen circle back with their teacher friend, Andrea! We recommend listening to the first teacher episode before diving into this one. In this episode we dig a bit deeper on the challenges of the job. Namely, how Andrea deals with Teachers being at the center of almost every social debate in the United States currently. We also drag Staples for no apparent reason, but if they want to fix their reputation after this one, the teachers will take your money.

Show notes:

To help teachers, be sure to check out https://www.donorschoose.org/

On this week of So What Do You Do, we speak to Sybil Lam, a personal trainer and Gymnast! Learn what it really means to work and earn a living as a personal trainer, from the day to day grind, to breaking into this flexed career.

We talk about it all on this episode of So What Do You Do!

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Marking it explicit for minor swearing to be on the safe side but there isn't anything crazy in here :)

In this week's episode, Joyce and Jen speak with Molly - a Corporate and Tech recruiter working in start-ups. We learn how Molly found herself in this career path, what keeps her engaged, and what it takes to be a recruiter. Looking to switch up jobs? Molly talks about how you can get started down the path of becoming a recruiter without any prior experience.

Marked explicit because someone probably swore, but it's not going to be like, super bad stuff :)

Join Joyce and Jen as they talk to Andrea, a Middle School Teacher. We learn what a day as a teacher looks like, what brought her to this career, and dig into what motivates so many teachers each day despite the systematic challenges that they face within the system. Subsequently, Jen has multiple flashbacks to the hellscape which was being a girl in Middle School as Andrea talks about being on the other side of it all.

Marked as explicit due to light to mild swearing :)