u/MoodyBoi9

I’ve worked at both a large company and now a small one, and one thing has stayed the same: no one really seems to know what a business/data analyst actually does. Honestly, some days even I struggle to describe it clearly. I’ve had people ask me how to connect to the printer because they think I’m IT.

Stakeholders usually think the work I do is interesting and important, but at the same time they don’t really know what they want from me or how to use me effectively. It’s pretty frustrating; I’m “important”, but there are times I feel useless. I’ve felt this way many times after being an analyst for 3 years.

Does anyone else run into this? How do you deal with it?