Now
What I'm focused on, today.
A snapshot of the present. Updated as the present changes.
Learning
- • SQL — approaching advanced
- • Power BI — approaching advanced
- • Excel — basic to intermediate
- • Coursera Data Analytics — in progress
Working on
My data analytics internship, secured in April 2026. It's where what I've been studying meets real work, real data, and real questions.
What's keeping me going
- Belief in my future
- Belief that I can become a successful data analyst
- Remembering where I started
- The desire to build a better life
- Continuous learning
- The vision I have for myself
What's hard right now
Studying through power outages, the cost of fuel, financial pressure, and the doubt that visits at 4 a.m. I'm not pretending these aren't real. I'm just refusing to let them be the end of the story.
If you're walking a similar road —
I hope something here makes today easier to sit down to.
Read the journalThis month's goals
- Show up to the internship fully prepared, every day
- Move further into advanced SQL window functions
- Tighten my Power BI DAX measures
- Write at least one new journal entry per week
Books & courses keeping me company
- • Coursera Data Analytics — in progress
- • Deloitte Data Analytics Job Simulation — completed
- • Mastercard learning programmes — completed milestones
Today's challenges
- • Studying through power outages
- • The rising cost of fuel
- • Financial pressure that doesn't pause for motivation
- • The 4 a.m. doubt