Could I still have a promising career in tech without learning data science?
I'm currently in my senior year of university and a lot of my peers have been discussing career paths they plan to get into. A lot of them seems to be looking forward to getting into data science and engineering. However, for me personally, I kind of hate working on stuff related to data. I have a project focusing on computer vision which serves as a primer to students in data science field but I dread working on it and most of the concepts I'm learning aren't really appealing.
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Most start up's won't hit a point where they have enough data to need something, for years.
Client side data science isn't really a thing, so you're good with web, mobile and desk apps.
IOT stuff has no real data science in it. (Your fridge isn't running much in the way of stats)
In 20 years of pro dev, I've worked with hundreds of devs, and only 3 data science people.
Do what you love. Tech sales isn’t really focused on data and they are well-paid. Most medical fields with the exception of epidemiology aren’t focused on data as an example either if you’re looking for a career that pays well.
Once you have children and big bills it becomes harder to make big transitions.