Everyone wants to become a Data Engineer. But nobody talks about the transformation 😄 Data Engineer – Day 1 vs After 1 Year Day 1: “SQL is just SELECT * FROM table” After 1 year: 5 CTEs, window functions, nested queries… still wrong result. Day 1: “Data pipeline means Excel + copy paste” After 1 year: Kafka → Spark → S3 → Airflow → BigQuery → Dashboard Day 1: “Cloud is just storage” After 1 year: IAM, VPC, cost alerts, permissions, latency… welcome to reality. Day 1: “Python? Easy.” After 1 year: Why is this null? Why is this list? Why is this timezone? Day 1: “I’ll finish this in 30 minutes” After 1 year: Debugging the same issue for 3 hours. Day 1: “I want to become a Data Engineer” After 1 year: “I am a Data Engineer… but at what cost 😭” Jokes apart, this is actually growth. Confusion → complexity → clarity → confidence. And every real data engineer has gone through this. Follow for more Gowtham SB #DataEngineering #SQL #BigData #TechLife #DeveloperHumor Cl...