I graduate college in December and I got my first fulltime job offer today! I've been working in my university's oit department for 3 semesters, lol most of rants are about that job. I guess a lot of my frustration stemmed from being capable but hitting a wall in the sort of things I worked on. I didnt feel like I was growing and had no avenues to express concerns/feedback towards the end. Plus the job was not one where they could give me a job after graduation, so I just felt unseen and discardable day to day.

But turns out this job worked out for me! There's an opening in a whole other division that does api development and data warehousing with Snowflake/Attacama and they want me specifically for it. If the benefits/pay ends up being decent, I'm leaning towards accepting it.

I hate pl-sql and data warehousing. For this project we're extracting from source tables using a generic method equal for every student, changing the data and then copying to a table for analytics.
Everyone's project is fine. Mine occupies 90mb and exceeds the quota already. Delivery due in 2 days... So much for that cs grad. FML.

!rant

Tomorrow I'll be doing my last CS exam (Data Warehousing, somebody shoot me). I'm pumped to dive in on that Android certification course I was awarded by udacity.
However I'll probably need to move to the capital or a bigger city to get a proper career on what I like. Small towns suck. Anyone else had this experience?

Is there a community about infrastructures? or data warehousing? Trying to find solutions for current projects, but don't have anyone for asking questions.

!Rant
I am dev working on data warehousing. Want to switch to autonomous vehicle industry as a vision engineer.
How to start ?

PS: I did projects on CV during my BE days(2016) and won a gold medal in that.

Interviewed for a job. Said that the colleague in charge of data engineering picked MSSQL Server for data warehousing, and that I had to write a plugin for that.

Interviewer - experienced in all things data - chuckled as soon as I said Microsoft.

Really need help to upskill as a data engineer. Are there any free sample databases data out there with practice questions to upskill as one? I wanna learn database design, data lake and data warehousing skills... I don't know if I'm asking the right questions but if I'm not making sense, please help me out!