Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, member Sasha Lubyonski shares his path from getting a PhD in academia to lead

data scientists at a top consulting firm, advice for the tools and skills that can help make you

more valuable to your employer,

and when you should know, it's time to switch jobs.

Enjoy.

Sasha Lubyanski, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

And I'm very happy to be here.

It would be great if you could give the listeners a quick summary of your background.

Sure thing. I began everything off in academia.

I took a lot of courses. I got a lot of degrees. I have a PhD. And after doing all of this,

when I got into the job market, I realized everything is quite different out there in the real world.

And it took me many years, many different types of jobs to figure out what it is that I'm supposed to be doing.

And what other people, like me, are supposed to be doing. You'm supposed to be doing and what other people like me are

supposed to be doing.

You're supposed to be helping your employer or your employer's client solve some kind of

real-world problem.

And the fact of the matter is most people just don't understand this.

And when you say most people, are you referring to people in academia specifically,

like yourself, or people just in general? Both. It could be people in academia that just have been

told rumors of jobs out there. It could be people that are new to the job market. For example,

a lot of people who are on the management consulting forum seem to think that everybody out there is just waiting for them to show up in strategy and go and tell companies what to do to act as a substitute CEO.

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