@array FWIW this conversation might prompt me to get around to writing the "My Datawork History" piece that I've long intended to write. A counterpart to the My Coding History pair that I wrote some years ago.
My personal bent is to counteract the "how to be amazing" articles and videos that I constantly see. Some of us, while we find the work interesting, just want reliable employment.
I opined decades ago that there was too much data work to ever be all done. So far that's proven true.