jockey

An investor invests in the jockey and not the horse.

Just consider every profession where a desk jockey is not the norm.

" It feels impossible that you'll ever be accepted as a badass motorcycle jockey.

"Desk jockey does manual labor and his feet hurt, story at 11"I worked the graveyard shift as a picker at Amazon back around '00.

Wasn't the original story that he was a high school dropout, glorified keyboard jockey who was way overpaid for what his job entailed?

I had no idea on how to gain control of the wild horse that had left the stable unsaddled, with a jockey that was about as unprepared as could be.

Running a lathe or changing 200 degree oil in a robotic arm kinda suck compared to rebooting servers or being a powerpoint jockey.

The end-result of these models is that nobody has an incentive, at least a purely monetary incentive, to jockey for credit.

The downside of a peer review system is that people jockey for visibility and work that is important but not visible or "sexy" gets neglected.

Really though, unless you have a strong understanding of both calculus and statistics you'll never be a "data scientist", you'll just be a library jockey.

There's always a few people who, evidently lacking any real stimulation in their lives, feel the need to constantly jockey for positions on the road, endangering everyone around them for a mere ego trip.

Alternate route, especially to machine learning / data science:- Become a "business analyst", AKA spreadsheet jockey, at some gigantic & relatively faceless corporation.- Learn Python, or some other scripting language that runs on Windows and has hooks into spreadsheets / backend data stores / email systems and makes data manipulation easy.- Automate your job away.